It’s as if King’s words have called him into being. Although Elwood Curtis is the protagonist of RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, we rarely see him so clearly as in that fleeting moment.

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 ...

Nickel Boys tells the story of two African American boys, Elwood Curtis and Turner, as they develop a friendship while being ...

When Hattie’s grandson, Elwood Curtis, is unjustly charged with car theft, he’s sent to the Nickel Academy, a brutal reform school based on the real-life Dozier School in Florida where ...

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 ...

A young dreamer named Elwood Curtis stares intently at his Black reflection in an electronics shop window as a row of small televisions broadcast Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech. Still living ...

Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), an honest, naïve teenager heading to college, is sent instead to Nickel for the crimes of being in the wrong place and being Black. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Hattie in ...

A promising young black teenager, Elwood Curtis, seems destined for great things, among being accepted into an accelerated college program at an HBCU. But, things take a turn when he hitchhikes ...

a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood. Or maybe a you-are-Elwood feeling is more accurate.

the film tells the harrowing story of two Black boys navigating the brutal realities of a reform school in the Jim Crow South.The film follows the journey of Elwood Curtis, whose dreams of ...

The script is adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Nickel Boys,” from 2019, which rendered, in an ascetic prose, the story of two Black boys, Elwood Curtis and ...