The Footcandle Film Society will be screening the film NICKEL BOYS at the Carolina Theater in Downtown Hickory on Wednesday, May 7 and Thursday, May 8, 7:00pm each night.
This film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2025 Academy Awards.
This film screening is free to all Footcandle Film Society members; additional tickets will be sold at the box office for $5.00 each.
About the film: Nickel Boys is a 2024 American historical drama film based on the 2019 novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. It was directed by RaMell Ross, who wrote the screenplay with Joslyn Barnes. Starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, Jimmie Fails, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, the story follows two African-American boys, Elwood (Herisse) and Turner (Wilson), who are sent to an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida. The film is inspired by the Dozier School for Boys, a now-closed Florida reform school notorious for its abusive treatment of students.
Rated PG-13 for thematic material involving racism, some strong language including racial slurs, violent content and smoking. Running time is 2 hours 20 minutes.
