Monster (2018)

Directed by

Anthony Mandler

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 112 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage film student from Harlem is charged as an adult for a murder he says he did not commit. The film follows his struggle to prove his innocence while facing a legal system that sees him as a monster.

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What happens

Monster is a 2018 American legal drama film directed by Anthony Mandler, from a screenplay by Radha Blank, Cole Wiley, and Janece Shaffer, based on the novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers. It stars Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jennifer Ehle, Tim Blake Nelson, Nas, ASAP Rocky, Paul Ben-Victor, John David Washington, Jennifer Hudson, and Jeffrey Wright. Wright, Nas, and John Legend also serve as executive producers on the film. Three years after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2018, the film was acquired by Netflix and released on May 7, 2021. It received generally positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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