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Moonlight

Cast

Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders View All


Crew

Barry Jenkins (Screenplay), Barry Jenkins (Director), Tarell Alvin McCraney (Story) View All

Release: Oct. 21st, 2016
Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
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donniedarko
The underlying questions of the film come from personal identity, how much we create to fit in with our environment and how much is an unchangeable nature.
Gideon58
But where this story really shines is the final third where Chirone and Kevin reconnect as young adults...these characters have gone through a lot of change since being teenagers, including stints in jail and this Chirone is nothing like Little, but the reunion with Kevin is a slow and tension-fille....
Citizen Rules
The film really immerses us in his personal story and makes his world seem so real.


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