Colson Whitehead Adaptation ‘Nickel Boys’ Debuts Melodic and Riveting First Trailer
“Nickel Boys,” a movie adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from 2019, debuted its first trailer on Thursday — a melodic and riveting slice of life from the perspective of a young man on the other side of unspeakable traumas.
From first-time feature filmmaker RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys” dramatizes a friendship built in a reformatory school in the Jim Crow South. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in August and is set to open the New York Film Festival on Sept. 27.
From Orion Pictures and Amazon MGM Studios, the drama begins its limited theatrical release on Oct. 25.
Watch the trailer below:
The film’s official synopsis reads 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,...
From first-time feature filmmaker RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys” dramatizes a friendship built in a reformatory school in the Jim Crow South. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in August and is set to open the New York Film Festival on Sept. 27.
From Orion Pictures and Amazon MGM Studios, the drama begins its limited theatrical release on Oct. 25.
Watch the trailer below:
The film’s official synopsis reads 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,...
- 9/6/2024
- by Benjamin Lindsay
- The Wrap
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