In Select Theaters November 30
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Academy Award-winning writer/director Barry Jenkins' first film since the Best Picture Oscar-winning Moonlight is If Beale Street Could Talk,
his adaptation of James Baldwin's novel - the first English-language
feature film based on the work of the author, to whom the movie is
dedicated.
Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is
a timeless and moving love story of both a couple's unbreakable bond
and the African-American family's empowering embrace, as told through
the eyes of 19-year-old Tish Rivers (screen newcomer KiKi Layne). A
daughter and wife-to-be, Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and
trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who
goes by the nickname Fonny (Stephan James). Friends since childhood, the
devoted couple dream of a future together but their plans are derailed
when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit.
Through the unique intimacy and power of cinema, If Beale Street Could Talk honors
the author's prescient words and imagery, charting the emotional
currents navigated in an unforgiving and racially biased world as the
filmmaker poetically crosses time frames to show how love and humanity
endure.
Director: Barry Jenkins
Writer: Barry Jenkins
Producers: Megan Ellison, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner
Cast: KiKi
Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris,
Brian Tyree Henry, Michael Beach, Ed Skrein, Diego Luna, Dave Franco,
Pedro Pascal
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