The Nickel Boys
Plot.
In the 1960s, African-American Elwood Curtis is sent to the Nickel Academy after he is falsely accused of a crime. While there, he meets a boy named Turner, and the two form a close friendship as they try to survive the horrors of the school and its corrupt administrators. Decades later, an investigation takes place after the academy's walls are found to have hidden a history of atrocities, including events that led to bodies being buried on the premises.
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Cast & Crew.
Ethan Herisse
Elwood
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Hattie
Brandon Wilson
Turner
Hamish Linklater
Spencer
Fred Hechinger
Harper
Craig Tate
Adult Chickie Pete
Luke Tennie
Griff
Anthony Marble
Director Hardy
Sunny Mabrey
Mrs. Hardee
Lucy Faust
Mrs. Hardee
Gralen Bryant Banks
Blakeley
Billy Slaughter
Dr. Cooke
Sara Osi Scott
Millie
Terence Rosemore
Prep Cook
Rachel Whitman Groves
Nurse Scarlet
Taraja Ramsess
Rodney
Details.
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Wiki.
The Nickel Boys is an upcoming American period drama film based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Colson Whitehead. It was directed by RaMell Ross (in his narrative feature directorial debut), who co-wrote the screenplay with Joslyn Barnes, and stars Aunjanue Ellis, Ethan Herisse, Fred Hechinger, Hamish Linklater and Brandon Wilson.