American Skin (2019)

Directed by

Nate Parker

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 103 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Marine veteran working as a janitor sends his son to a private school. After a police officer shoots and kills his son and is not charged, the father decides to take action himself.

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What happens

American Skin is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Nate Parker. It stars Parker, Omari Hardwick, Theo Rossi, Shane Paul McGhie, Milauna Jackson, and Beau Knapp, and follows a Marine veteran who works as a school janitor to give his son a private school education. After he and his son are racially profiled and his son fatally shot, his killer, a police officer is not charged. The father takes matters into his own hands. The film had its world premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2019, and was released in the United States on January 15, 2021, by Vertical Entertainment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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