Nickel, a brutal facility where students are subjected to beatings, sex abuse and racism, is inspired by Florida's Dozier School for Boys, which closed in 2011.In the film, real photos from Dozier ...

Spoiler alert! This story contains major details about the plot and ending of "The Nickel Boys" (now showing in New York theaters, opening in Los Angeles Dec. 20 and releasing wide in January ...

Nickel Boys follows two Black teenage boys, Elwood and Turner, who are sent to the Nickel Academy in Florida. Elwood, a young man who’s on his way to college takes a ride from a stranger only to ...

NB_FP_1820 Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor portrays Hattie in "Nickel Boys." (Courtesy of Orion Pictures) “Nickel Boys” offers yet another version of Elwood, as an adult (Daveed Diggs) living far away ...

Filmmaker RaMell Ross doesn't just interpret Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel about a racist, nightmarish boys reformatory. He immerses you in it ...

Ethan Herisse stars as Elwood and Brandon Wilson as Turner in director RaMell Ross’s "Nickel Boys." (Courtesy Orion Pictures) Before he made “Creed’ and the “Black Panther” movies ...

Much of “Nickel Boys” is shown through the eyes of Elwood (Ethan Herisse, left) and his friend Turner (Brandon Wilson), seen here looking into a ceiling mirror. Orion Pictures SHARE ...

When filmmaker RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s harrowing 2019 novel about two teenage boys, Elwood and Turner, who meet at an abusive reform school in 1960s ...

In Nickel Boys, Elwood Curtis’s (Ethan Herisse) college dream shatters alongside a two-lane, Jim Crow-era Florida highway.Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the ...

Orion Pictures. By Manohla Dargis. Published Dec. 12, 2024 Updated Jan. 24, 2025. ... Brandon Wilson, left, as Turner and Ethan Herisse as Elwood in “Nickel Boys,” directed by RaMell Ross.

In “Nickel Boys” the real-life horrors of a Florida reformatory school become the stuff of a masterpiece directed by RaMell Ross.

The "Nickel Boys" film was adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Black teens at a corrupt reform school.