{"id":6133,"date":"2025-01-27T00:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T23:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2025-01-27T00:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T23:17:18","slug":"nickel-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/nickel-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickel Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar nominee for Best Picture!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NICKEL BOYS | Official Trailer\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-2qZ429rUZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elwood Curtis&#8217;s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. <\/p>\n<p>Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he&#8217;s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. <\/p>\n<p>He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner. <\/p>\n<p>The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing fundamental tips for survival, Elwood, clinging to his optimistic worldview. <\/p>\n<p>Backdropped by the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, Elwood and Turner\u2019s existence appear worlds away from Rev. Martin Luther King&#8217;s burnished oratory. <\/p>\n<p>Despite Nickel&#8217;s brutality, Elwood strives to hold onto his humanity, awakening a new vision for Turner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Director RaMell Ross&#8217; stylistically radical approach to adapting Colson Whitehead&#8217;s searing novel will be jarring for some, but <em>Nickel Boys<\/em>&#8216; sense of immersion achieves the jaw-dropping effect of walking in another&#8217;s shoes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Drama<br \/>\nUnited States (English)<br \/>\n2h 20min<br \/>\n<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nickel2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6134\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar nominee for Best Picture! Elwood Curtis&#8217;s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oscars-2025-nominees"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nickel2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}