Stars stunned on the red carpet at the Los Angeles Special Screening of NICKEL BOYS

Stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, alongside co-writer/director RaMell Ross, stunned on the red carpet at the Los Angeles Special Screening of NICKEL BOYS on Monday, December 16 at the DGA Theatre with additional cast and filmmakers.

About the film

NICKEL BOYS is a historical drama film based on the 2019 novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.

It was directed by RaMell Ross, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joslyn Barnes, and stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson, alongside Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.

The story follows two African American boys, Elwood and Turner, who are sent to an abusive reform school called the Nickel Academy in 1960s Florida. The film is inspired by the historic reform school in Florida called the Dozier School for Boys, which was notorious for abusive treatment of students.

Synopsis

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. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner. The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing fundamental tips for survival, Elwood, clinging to his optimistic worldview. Backdropped by the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, Elwood and Turner’s existence appear worlds away from Rev. Martin Luther King‘s burnished oratory. Despite Nickel’s brutality, Elwood strives to hold onto his humanity, awakening a new vision for Turner.

NICKEL BOYS Los Angeles screening Photos

Check out some photo highlights of the NICKEL BOYS screening.

NICKEL BOYS is in select theaters.