Nickel Boys

Adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in segregated 1960s Florida, Nickel Boys focuses on the story of Elwood, a black teen sent to the notorious Nickel Academy (based on a real-life institution) when he is falsely accused of a crime. Despite the school’s cruelty, he makes a connection with Turner as they find a way to squirrel hope against the odds. As the former students reconnect later in life, we are witnesses not only to the scars left by their youth, but also the healing power of human connection.