Adapted from the award winning novel by Colson Whitehead, "Nickel Boys" depicts the perspective of two young Black American boys surviving during the Jim Crow / civil rights era within a reform school of horrors in southern Florida.

Elwood: (in shock and with a broken voice) They were going to kill me and bury me out there?

Turner: Sure shit.

Ross, RaMell. (2024). Nickel Boys.

Director: RaMell Ross

Cast: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, & Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Year of Release: 2024

Black Film Series

Interviews of interest:

https://youtu.be/r9aSF2VLquY?si=sM74diJaWaprojS3

https://youtu.be/1LAMA3HsAUA?si=_1hBnN7uLwWT-y5U