Moonlight (2016)

Moonlight (2016)
A look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young black man growing up in Miami. His epic journey to manhood is guided by the kindness, support and love of the community that helps raise him.
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Release Date: October 21st, 2016

DVD Release Date: February 28th, 2017

R |1 hr 51 min

Plot Summary

A look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young black man growing up in Miami. His epic journey to manhood is guided by the kindness, support and love of the community that helps raise him.

Cast: Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Alex R. Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, Janelle Monae, Naomie Harris, Jaden Piner

Director: Barry Jenkins

Genres: Drama

Production Co: Plan B Entertainment, Pastel, Upload Films

Distributors: A24

Keywords: Car, Growing up, Father, Mother, Intense, House, Transformation, School, Brooding, 1990s, 1980s, Love, Emotional

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100
David RooneyThe Hollywood Reporter
Barry Jenkins' Moonlight pulls you into its introspective protagonist's world from the start and transfixes throughout as it observes, with uncommon poignancy and emotional perceptiveness, his roughly two-decade path to find a definitive answer to the question, "Who am I?" show more
100
Tim GriersonScreen International
Ambitious in scope but precise in its execution, this deceptively small-scale character piece reverberates with compassion and insight. show more
100
Dana StevensSlate
Moonlight is one of those movies that showers its audience with blessings: raw yet accomplished performances from a uniformly fine cast, casually lyrical camerawork, and a frankly romantic soundtrack that runs the gamut from ’70s Jamaican pop to a Mexican folk song crooned by the Brazilian Caetano Veloso. But the film’s greatest gift may be that flood of cleansing tears—which, by the time this spare but affecting film was over, I was also shedding in copious volume. show more

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