Nickel Boys

Movie • 2024 • Drama  

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Producers of MGM and Plan B are teaming up with director RaMell Ross for a film depiction of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel, based on real-life events which have only recently come to light. The narrative bounces between the 2010s and the 1960s as an investigation takes place surrounding the now-defunct Dozier School for Boys in Florida. The academy’s walls hide a history of atrocities, including events that led to bodies being buried on the premises.
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Does the dog die?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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People are taken to a room and beat for "misbehaving". We don't see the strikes but hear them crying out.
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Kids are taken to a room to be beaten. Sounds of violence and anguish are heard, but the beatings are not directly shown.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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There is a close up of a spider web, but it doesn't show any spiders. There is one quick shot of what looks like a for caught in it.
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Appear several times, there is a fantastical/hallucinatory nature to this
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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One brief close up shot of ants
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Assault
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Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
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implicit
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Are any hands damaged?
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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references to lynching
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Protagonist knocked out by punch
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Teens
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
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Are there jump scares?
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A scene of a group of boys being given only 2 or so minutes to shower. The scene shows only the shoulders and up, and is meant to demonstrate the dehumanization of carcel systems.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
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Not a typical jail, but it acts like one.
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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A character wakes up in an infirmary ward after a beating.
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Is there menstruation?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
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Does someone self harm?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Is there misophonia?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
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Yes, during a pool scene
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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The movie is shot in first-person pov, so most of the shots are a little shakey. Can be a bit nauseating for people that are sensitive to it.
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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Swearing
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Sporadic use of flickery archival footage, television static and timelapse photography throughout the film
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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The film was shot in a first-person point-of-view, so the actors talk directly to the camera, but they never break the fourth wall
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Pregnancy
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there aphobia?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Not a "black guy dies first" kind of situation, but the whole movie is about violence being inflicted on black people.
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Is there hate speech?
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
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Religious
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
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Is there bestiality?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Is there BDSM?
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Is someone homeless?
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Is existentialism debated?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Bittersweet
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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