Title: Moonlight
Original Title: Moonlight
Year: 2016
Info
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Length: 111 Minutes (1 hour 51 min)
- Budget: $4,000,000
- Genre: Drama Thriller LGTB
- Studios: A24 Films 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
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:
Videos
August 12 2016
Photos
Trivia
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."
No influence
In an interview, Barry Jenkins said that the three actors who play Chiron never met during production. He wanted each of them to build their own persona of Chiron during their respective segments, with no influence from the other portrayals. The same technique was used with the actors who play Kevin.
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.
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