Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Best Picture Winner ‘Moonlight’ to Expand to 1,500 U.S. Locations

A24 is expanding the Academy Award®-Winning and Best Picture film,Moonlight, to its widest point yet, over 1,500 theaters Nationwide. Read more here






At once a vital portrait of contemporary African American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, Moonlight is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths. Anchored by extraordinary performances from a tremendous ensemble cast, Jenkins’s staggering, singular vision is profoundly moving in its portrayal of the moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape our lives and make us who we are.


WRITTEN/DIRECTED BY: Barry Jenkins
STORY BY: Tarell Alvin McCraney
PRODUCED BY Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
STARRING Naomie Harris, André HollandAcademy Award®-Winner Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monáe, Alex R. Hibbert, Jaden Piner, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, and Jharrel Jerome
RUN TIME 111 minutes
RATED R for some sexuality, drug use, brief violence, and language  throughout
SYNOPSIS A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, MOONLIGHT chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.