A trailer for the upcoming Nickel Boys, a new film from RaMell Ross who makes his feature directorial debut with the movie. You can watch the Nickel Boys trailer in full below.
Nickel Boys trailer
Ross is best know for his 2018 documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening which won the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at Sundance and was nominated for the Academy Award.
The story chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
Brad Pitt is one of the executive producers on his dramatic feature debut, for the which the full synopsis is as follows.
Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner. The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing fundamental tips for survival, Elwood, clinging to his optimistic worldview. Backdropped by the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, Elwood and Turner’s existence appear worlds away from Rev. Martin Luther King’s burnished oratory. Despite Nickel’s brutality, Elwood strives to hold onto his humanity, awakening a new vision for Turner.
The work is based on the book ‘The Nickel Boys’ by Colson Whitehead and stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
The film, released by Curzon in November (UK), is produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, and Joslyn Barnes.
This one premiered at Telluride where is has pretty positive reviews (it currently has an 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes). It will also play London and New York in festivals over the next couple of months leading up to the release.
Watch the Nickel Boys trailer below.
