Nickel Boys
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: RaMell Ross Run Time: 140 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Brandon Wilson, Daveed Diggs, Ethan Herisse, Hamish Linklater
Just added: after the screening on Wednesday, March 12th at 8:00PM, the star of Nickel Boys, Ethan Herisse, will be joining us for an in-person Q&A moderated by our Film Membership Coordinator Bobby Thornson!
RaMell Ross’s Oscar-nominated Nickel Boys, based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is finally coming to The Frida Cinema!
The film follows Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), an idealistic young man inspired by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose dreams are shattered when he is unjustly sentenced to the school. There, he befriends Turner (Brandon Wilson), a more cynical and pragmatic boy who teaches him the hard truths about survival in an institution rife with corruption, racism, and violence. As the two navigate the horrors of Nickel Academy, their clashing philosophies on resistance and endurance lead them down paths that will forever shape their fates.