Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel The Nickel Boys follows the studious and idealistic Elwood Curtis, a Black teenager whose prized possession is a recording of speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.

Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a young ... Elwood tries his best to maintain hope that he’ll one day be free, but Turney has a different outlook, believing they’re only ...

A young dreamer named Elwood Curtis stares intently at his Black reflection ... stitches together a harrowing chronicle of friendship, hope and the mirage of progress. Ross and cinematographer ...

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 ...

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

Nickel Boys, filmmaker RaMell Ross’s brilliant adaptation (with co-writer Joslyn Barnes) of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, is the story of Elwood Curtis, an African ...