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Synopsis: Three time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chiron is presented. When a child, Chiron lives with his single, crack addict mother Paula in a crime ridden neighborhood in Miami. Chiron is a shy, withdrawn child largely due to his small size and being neglected by his mother, who is more concerned about getting her fixes and satisfying her carnal needs than taking care of him. Because of these issues, Chiron is bullied, the slurs hurled at him which he doesn't understand beyond knowing that they are meant to be hurtful. Besides his same aged Cuban-American friend Kevin, Chiron is given what little guidance he has in life from a neighborhood drug dealer named Juan, who can see that he is neglected, and Juan's caring girlfriend Teresa, whose home acts as a sanctuary away from the bullies and away from Paula's abuse. With this childhood as a foundation, Chiron may have a predetermined path in life, one that will only be magnified in terms
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Barry Jenkins
Production: A24 Films
  Won 3 Oscars. Another 220 wins & 270 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
99
Rotten Tomatoes:
98%
R
Year:
2016
111 min
$27,850,910
Website
3,690 Views


- We had like three bottles.

- Yeah, three bottles.

I'll make you some green tea,

man, come on.

I won't be drinking

that sh*t either, man.

- What do you drink?

- Water.

Who is you, man?

Who, me?

Yeah, nigga. You.

I'm saying, man, them fronts.

That car.

Who is you, Chiron?

I'm me, man.

I ain't tryin'

to be nothin' else.

Oh, okay.

So you hard now?

- I ain't say that.

- Well then what?

Hey, hey, hey, I ain't tryin'

to hem you up, man, it's just...

I ain't seen you

in a minute and...

it's not what I expected.

Well what did you expect?

You remember...

You remember the last time

I saw you?

For a long time,

tried not to remember.

Tried to forget all those times.

Yeah.

When we got to Atlanta...

I started over.

Built myself from the ground up.

Built myself hard.

- What about you? You...

- Me?

I wasn't never really

worth sh*t.

Just kept on, man.

Never really did anything

I actually wanted to do.

It was all I could do was to do what folks

thought I should be doing.

I wasn't never really myself.

And now?

Now?

Now, man... now I got li'l Kev.

Got this job.

Another 18 months of probation.

That's some real sh*t, man.

Nah, man.

It's a life.

You know?

I ain't never had that before.

Like...

Like, I'm tired as hell

right now, man,

and I ain't making more

than shoe money, but...

I ain't got no worries, man.

Not them kind what I had before.

That's that real sh*t.

That's that Bob Marley sh*t,

nigga.

You the only man

that's ever touched me.

You're the only one.

I haven't really

touched anyone, since.

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Barry Jenkins

Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. He is known for his films Medicine for Melancholy (2008) and Moonlight (2016), the latter of which received dozens of accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture as well as Best Adapted Screenplay, which Jenkins shared with co-writer Tarell Alvin McCraney. more…

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