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If Beale Street Could Talk
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Superb acting dominates this riveting, critically acclaimed, heartbreaking, realistic, star-dotted (Diego Luna, Finn Wittrock, Pedro Pascal, and Brian Tyree Henry), 2-hour film based on James Baldwin's 1974 novel in which the life of a pregnant, 19-year-old department store clerk (Kiki Layne), who has supportive parents (Regina King and Colman Domingo) and a sister (Teyonah Parris) in Harlem, is turned upside down when her soon-to-be in-laws (Michael Beach, Aunjanue Ellis, Ebony Obsidian, and Dominique Thorne) are upset about her out-of-wedlock pregnancy and her African-American sculptor fiancé (Stephan James) is erroneously arrested by a vindictive, racist cop (Ed Skrein) for the alleged rape of a Puerto Rican woman (Emily Rios) who then skips town

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Year:
2018
Rating:
 R
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