'Nickel Boys' Exclusive: Aunjanue Ellis Opens Up About The Film's Emotional Weight, "What Feels Exhausting Is Doing Something I Don't Believe In"
12/16/2024 04:56 PM
Nickel Boys has been proclaimed the best film of the year by a number of publications and we can actually confirm that it is indeed that good. Source: Courtesy / Orion Pictures Nickel Boys tells the story of a young man named Elwood Curtis whose 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. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner. The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing fundamental tips for . . .