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

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Walk a mile in somebody else’s shoes. Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a young, highly intelligent Black teen growing up in Jim Crow-era Florida.

Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), an honest, naïve teenager heading to college, is sent instead to Nickel for the crimes of being in the wrong place and being Black. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Hattie in ...

“Nickel Boys” is not only emotionally outstanding, but visually unique with its camera work, in which the camera directly acts as the gaze of the protagonist. Set in the 1960s, the audience initially ...

Nickel Boys 4 out of 5 Stars Director ... violent content and smoking Synopsis: Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent ...

Directed by RaMell Ross and based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, “Nickel Boys” follows Black two boys, Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse) and Jack Turner ...

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 ...

NICKEL BOYS is a remarkable film, a moving human drama about childhood ... the story begins with the childhood experience of Elwood Curtis, following him from early childhood. After the opening scene, ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. “Nickel Boys” starts with the perspective of Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse) a promising young Black man living in the Jim Crow South in the mid-1960s.

Then, something else dawns in the opening breaths of “Nickel Boys.” The film is shot in a first-person lens. We, the viewer, embody Elwood Curtis, an ambitious Black teen growing up in 1960s ...

As the drama tightens in “Nickel Boys,” the Oscar-nominated adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, we see only what the protagonist, a Black teen named Elwood Curtis ...