On a downtown street in Tallahassee, 1965, a young Black man stands in front of a store window filled with television sets, his faint reflection barely visible amid the colorful ads for Florida ...

Nickel Boys tells the story of two African American boys, Elwood Curtis and Turner, as they develop a friendship while being ...

Elwood arrives at the Nickel Academy, as it’s called, after he’s unfairly caught up in an injustice. It’s 1962 when a sympathetic teacher Mr. Hill (Jimmie Fails) taps Elwood — a sober ...

Synopsis: Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, ...

Elwood Curtis's college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he's sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, ...

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor was raised in McComb, Mississippi, a one-time battleground in the struggle for civil rights, and says she carried a lot of the pain her maternal forebears endured.

'Nickel Boys' is starring Ethan Herisse as Elwood Curtis, and Brandon Wilson as Turner. The movie was released in December 2024, and has grossed over $3 million worldwide, according to The Numbers.

Alongside Herisse and Wilson, Nickel Boys features a talented ensemble cast, including Daveed Diggs, Hamish Linklater, and Fred Hechinger. The film is directed by RaMell Ross, who co-adapted the ...

As the drama tightens in “Nickel Boys,” the Oscar-nominated adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, we see only what the protagonist, a Black teen named Elwood Curtis, sees ...

Nickel Boys begins with Elwood Curtis, a young Black boy played at first by Ethan Cole Sharp, living in Tallahassee with his grandmother, Hattie (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), during the height of Jim Crow.

The film, like the novel, follows 16-year-old Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a promising teen from Tallahassee who lives with his grandmother, Hattie (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), and navigates the Jim ...

As Elwood (Ethan Herisse) enters young adulthood, we begin to clock both his potential — a kindly teacher (The Last Black Man in San Francisco‘s Jimmie Fails) recommends him for an exclusive ...