Nickel Boys is a 2024 American historical drama film based on the 2019 novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. It was directed by RaMell Ross, who wrote the screenplay with Joslyn Barnes.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, "Nickel Boys" chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African-American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Dec 12, 2024 · RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys,” a stirring cinematic adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is polished to a remarkable luster. Its assuredness comes on like a stiff breeze on a sticky Southern summer day, telling a boldly conceived story of two Black kids named Elwood and Turner, living during the height of ...

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...

Dec 13, 2024 · 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, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. …

Dec 10, 2024 · Set in Jim Crow-era Florida, two Black teens, Elwood Curtis and Turner, endure the brutal conditions of Nickel Academy, a reformatory for boys. While Turner teaches survival through cynicism, Elwood clings to his belief in justice, despite the horrors around them.

From Academy Award Nominee RaMell Ross comes “A New American Masterpiece”. Watch the trailer for #NickelBoys now and see the film only in theaters this fall.

Dec 14, 2024 · The Oscar-tipped film Nickel Boys adapts Colson Whitehead's novel about two boys at an abusive "reform" school and shoots it from their point of view. The...

Jan 23, 2025 · Nickel Boys is based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Here's everything you need to know about the anticipated adaptation.

Dec 9, 2024 · The novel “Nickel Boys,” which the film is based on, is a fictionalized story of the very real Florida's Dozier School for Boys, where more than a century of abuse, torture,...