OSCAR & BAFTA CONTENDER!
Set in between now and 1960s Florida, this emotionally powerful story centres around a pair of teenage boys boarding at a tough reform school.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead and directed by RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening), Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young men navigating the harrowing trials of a Florida reform school.
1960s Tallahassee. Elwood Curtis is sent to the reformatory Nickel Academy for a crime he didn’t commit.
Present day New York. A revelation about the abuses suffered by the Academy’s students leads Curtis to remember his life-changing friendship with Jack Turner.
Ross’s film is a dazzling achievement – a bold and beguiling exploration of trauma and buried American history.
