RaMell Ross‘ critically acclaimed Nickel Boys has a new UK Trailer and release date. Curzon Film set to release the film now in January 2025 instead of November.
Starring Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson as our young African American men at the centre of this film. Nickel Boys is chronicling the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. We go back to the 1960’s Elwood Curtis is sent to the reformatory Nickel Academy, Florida for a crime he didn’t commit. The school is where he meets his friend Jack Turner a start of alliance of survival.
The film made it’s UK premiere recently at BFI London Film Festival, which Freda Cooper watched the film. Freda described the Nickel Boys as “a shattering, unsettling, and profoundly moving piece of filmmaking“. Check out the full review via the link below the new Trailer…