Adapted from Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, NICKEL BOYS introduces us to Elwood Curtis during the 1960s, Tallahassee, whose dreams of college are shattered when he’s sent to Nickel Academy, a reform school in the Jim Crow South for a crime he didn’t commit. Ross’s film is a dazzling achievement – a bold and beguiling exploration of trauma and buried American history.
Directed by RaMell Ross and starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
"There are outstanding performances here from Ellis-Taylor, Herisse and Wilson, and Jomo Fray’s cinematography and Nora Mendis’s production design are exceptional too. This is a survivor’s coming of age: tough, disillusioned, brilliant." Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
