Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
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00:00It's been a long wait for some good news.
00:18Good news, good news, good news.
00:24Things is changing.
00:25Nana, what is it?
00:26I let you down.
00:27El, boy.
00:33I'm okay, Nana.
00:34El, I let you down.
00:35No.
00:36Nana.
00:37No, I'm okay.
00:38I'm hanging in there.
00:39Looking back on it, think back on it, it's a long time ago.
00:56Where'd you come from?
01:01My mother's watch.
01:03A deck of marked cards.
01:05My big toenail.
01:09That's all you got?
01:12Really got nothing left to lose.
01:15You don't remember?
01:17Remember what?
01:20You really don't remember.
01:24He's about to fire, he's about to fire!
01:26Turner! Turner!
01:28This isn't the fight!
01:40See, the problem is, Edwin,
01:42you didn't know how it works.
01:56It's now or never.
01:58That's it, Ed! You're doing great!
02:02We have to be like knights.
02:04Checkmate.