Nickel Boys

About Nickel Boys

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

RaMell Ross's Nickel Boys is a 2024 history film. It runs 140 minutes and was released in December 2024.

Ethan Herisse appears as Elwood, Brandon Wilson as Turner, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Hattie, and Hamish Linklater as Spencer. Written by Joslyn Barnes and RaMell Ross. It was produced by Anonymous Content, Louverture Films, and Orion Pictures. The film began as a novel.

Members will find audacious, male friendship, complex, and historical drama in it. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, MUBI, and MUBI Amazon Channel.

The Butler, The Banker, and Son of the South make useful companions to Nickel Boys, all filed under 1960s, african american history, and civil rights movement. It scores 6.6 out of 10 from 382 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.