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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. It stars an ensemble cast that includes KiKi Layne , Stephan James , Colman Domingo , Teyonah Parris , Michael Beach , Dave Franco , Diego Luna , Pedro Pascal , Ed Skrein , Brian Tyree ...
- $20.6 million
- Nicholas Britell
- $12 million
Dec 25, 2018 · A drama romance film based on James Baldwin's novel, directed by Barry Jenkins. It follows a pregnant woman who tries to prove her lover's innocence after he is falsely accused of rape in 1970s Harlem.
- (51K)
- Drama, Romance
- Barry Jenkins
- 2018-12-25
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.
- James Baldwin
- 197
- 1974
- June 17, 1974
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.
- (458)
- Barry Jenkins
- R
- Kiki Layne
Dec 10, 2018 · "If Beale Street Could Talk" is now streaming on Hulu. #BlackLivesMatter. Director Barry Jenkins summons James Baldwin ’s spirit in his adaptation of the author’s 1974 book, “If Beale Street Could Talk” by immediately quoting him onscreen: “Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street, whether in Jackson, Mississippi ...
Summaries. 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. African-American teen sweethearts Fonny and Tish are ripped apart when Fonny is wrongly arrested for the rape of a Puerto Rican woman because of the machinations of a racist cop.
