Your Guide to What's On in Penrith

• Directed by RaMell Ross
• Starring Ethan Cole Sharp, Sam Malone, Najah Bradley
• 140mins | 2024 | 

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Elwood Curtis' college dreams are shattered when he's sentenced to Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory in the Jim Crow South. Clinging to his optimistic worldview, Elwood strikes up a friendship with Turner, a fellow Black teen who dispenses fundamental tips for survival.

✭✭✭✭✭ ‘a miracle of a movie’ - Sam Bodrojan, Little White Lies

✭✭✭✭✭ ‘This is a survivor’s coming of age: tough, disillusioned, brilliant.’ - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

✭✭✭✭✭ ‘a tremendously daring film.’ - Jennie Kermode, Eye For Film