About Nickel Boys
RaMell Ross, having demonstrated an uncanny facility with depicting the detail of African American life in his debut documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening, launches into feature filmmaking with this audacious and profoundly moving tale of a mid-century reform school.
Adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Nickel Boys focuses on the story of Elwood (Ethan Herisse), a black teen sent to the Nickel Academy (based on a notorious real-life institution). Despite the school’s cruelty, he makes a connection with Turner (Brandon Willis) as they find a way to squirrel hope against the odds. As the former students reconnect later in life, we are witnesses not only to the scars left by their youth, but also the healing power of human connection.
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MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.
