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Nickel Boys

Dir. RaMell Ross
Constellation
Fri 1 Nov - Wed 6 Nov
Fri 1 Nov
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Wed 6 Nov
  • Fri 1 Nov
    20:00 - 22:20
    Vue in the Light, Leeds
    Screen 11
    Tickets
  • Sun 3 Nov
    11:00 - 13:20
    Vue in the Light, Leeds
    Screen 11
    Tickets
  • Wed 6 Nov
    15:30 - 17:50
    Vue in the Light, Leeds
    Screen 11
    Tickets

A deeply moving adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a brutal reformatory for troubled teens in Florida in the 60s.

The Nickel Academy is a brutal reformatory for troubled teens in the Southern States in the early 60s where the Jim Crow laws of racial segregation still hold sway. Two young men form an alliance there. The clever, idealistic newcomer Elwood gets survival tips from the toughened and savvy Turner. Far removed from the Civil Rights Movement, they find their own ways to face up against a savagely oppressive system. The Nickel Boys is the debut drama feature by RaMell Ross, director of the beautiful, Oscar-nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening.

"Nickel Boys is a rare film, a work of artistic daring which takes Whitehead’s novel and unpicks, reassembles and layers it, paying no mind to traditional structure and forcing the viewer to work at the narrative through a dazzling display of conceptual high-mindedness." - Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International

Content Guidance


Contains themes of racism and institutional abuse.

 

Director: RaMell Ross
Running time: 140 minutes
Production year: 2024
Country: USA
Language: English
UK distributor: Curzon
Age rating: BBFC rating 12A

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Constellation

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