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Moonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney 's unpublished semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. It stars Trevante Rhodes, Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Janelle Monáe, and André Holland .
- $65.2 million
- Barry Jenkins
- $1.5–4 million
- Nicholas Britell
Nov 18, 2016 · Moonlight: Directed by Barry Jenkins. With Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Duan Sanderson, Alex R. Hibbert. A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
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Moonlight uses one man's story to offer a remarkable and brilliantly crafted look at lives too rarely seen in cinema. A look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young black man ...
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- Mahershala Ali
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Moonlight, American dramatic film released in 2016 that won the Academy Award for best picture. Directed by Barry Jenkins and based on the unpublished play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the movie tells the story of a young Black man coming to grips with his attraction to other men.
- Pat Bauer
Sep 11, 2016 · Dramatic film has long been fascinated with issues of identity, but they’ve rarely been explored with the degree of eloquence and heartbreaking beauty as in Barry Jenkins’ masterful “Moonlight,” one of the essential American films of 2016. “Moonlight” is a film that is both lyrical and deeply grounded in its character work, a ...
