Watch the Official Trailer for Nickel Boys, Based on Acclaimed Colson Whitehead Novel
In the forthcoming film adaptation of The Nickel Boys, Elwood Curtis’s college dreams are shattered alongside a two-lane Florida highway. After a small, innocent mistake leads to his wrongful arrest, Elwood is sentenced to Nickel Academy, a vicious reform school in the Jim Crow South. At Nickel, he meets Turner, a fellow Black teen who…