Moonlight

Name: Moonlight
Genre: Drama, Thriller, LGTB
Duration: 1 h 51 min
Rating: 8.7
Cast: Mahershala Ali, André Holland, Shariff Earp, Duan Sanderson, Alex R. Hibbert

2016

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8.7

Title: Moonlight

Original Title: Moonlight

Year: 2016

Info

Country: USA
Length: 111 Minutes (1 hour 51 min)
Budget: 4,000,000
Genre: Drama Thriller LGTB
Studios: A24 Plan B Entertainment
Distributor: Diamond Films
Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)

Release Dates

UK: February 17 2017
United States: November 18 2016

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Trailer 'El vestido'

Plot

'Moonlight' tells a story of a lifetime...the story of Chiron, in three episodes. He is a Miami teenager discovering his sexuality in a stormy home life. Despite its typical premise, director Barry Jenkins ('Medicine for Melancoly') manages to develop a coherent and complex tale, far from stereotypes. Chiron gets lost on the streets of a city that is based on drug dealing, and will indeed find love in unexpected places, as well as a possibility to redeem.

The film is based on the Tarell McCraney play 'In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue' and it stars Naomie Harris, André Holland, Mahershala Ali and Janelle Monáe (in her first movie after an exquisite career in the music industry), in addition to the three actors who play Chiron on the three stages of the story: Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes and Alex R. Hibbert.

Awards

2017 Academy Awards (Oscars): 9 4
2017 Golden Globes: 6 1
2017 BAFTA Awards: 5 0

Cast

Director:

Barry Jenkins Barry Jenkins

Juan

Adult Kevin

Terrence

Azu

Little

Teresa

Paula

Videos

2:14

'La La Land' lost his Best Picture's Oscar for the big mistake of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway

February 27 2017

1:55

'Moonlight' Trailer

August 12 2016

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Trivia

Based on the unproduced play

The film is based on the unproduced play "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" by MacArthur Fellow Tarell Alvin McCraney.

Childhood

Director Barry Jenkins was inspired by his own childhood in Miami, where he was "always surrounded by this very lush green grass and these beautiful golden sunsets." He grew up in "an awesome neighborhood where some very dark things happened." He feels as though his childhood was "a beautiful struggle."

How to swim

When Juan teaches Little how to swim, Mahershala Ali is really teaching Alex R. Hibbert how to swim. When production started, Hibbert did not know how to swim.