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Dec 25, 2018 · If Beale Street Could Talk: Directed by Barry Jenkins. With KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Teyonah Parris. A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit.
Set in the 1970s Tish (Kiki Layne) is a 19-year-old African-American woman living in West Harlem, New York City, and she is madly in love with Fonny (Stephan James), a fellow African American man who is a few years older than her. He is kind and warm and loves her deeply.
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 2018 American romantic drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins and based on James Baldwin's 1974 novel of the same name.
In early 1970s Harlem, daughter and wife-to-be Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who goes by the nickname Fonny.
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- Drama, Romance
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Dec 10, 2018 · “If Beale Street Could Talk” leaves the viewer with feelings of anger at the fate society forces Fonny to accept, but it also conjures up some optimism for his and Tish’s future. This isn’t a happy film but it isn’t a hopeless one, either.
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin. His fifth novel (and 13th book overall), it is a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues", named after Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
Official Trailer. A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.
Sep 20, 2018 · Based on the novel written by James Baldwin. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, directed by Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins, is NOW PLAYING IN SELECT THEATERS. #BealeStreet Cast: KiKi Layne, Stephan...
Dec 12, 2018 · The instrument of that supremacy in “Beale Street” is a lizardy white beat cop (Ed Skrein), who frames Fonny for rape. How the cop pulls this off isn’t of much concern.
Dec 14, 2018 · Set in early-1970s Harlem, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple's unbreakable bond and the African-American family's empowering embrace, as told through the eyes of 19-year-old Tish Rivers (screen newcomer KiKi Layne).
