If Beale Street Could Talk

“Trust Love All The Way”

6.9(1,229)20182h 0m

RomanceDrama

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

Director

Barry Jenkins

Budget

$12.0M

Revenue

$20.6M

Barry Jenkins on his film IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

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Cast

KiKi Layne

Tish Rivers

Stephan James

Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt

Regina King

Sharon Rivers

Colman Domingo

Joseph Rivers

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Mrs. Hunt

Michael Beach

Frank Hunt

Finn Wittrock

Hayward

Brian Tyree Henry

Daniel Carty

Emily Rios

Victoria Rogers

Teyonah Parris

Ernestine Rivers

Ebony Obsidian

Adrienne Hunt

Dominique Thorne

Sheila Hunt

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Reviews

2 reviews

Geronimo1967

2y ago

6.0

This is a beautifully filmed experience; thereafter a sort of emotional torpor sets in and it struggles to make headway in self-made heavy seas. The story, upon which it is based, offers us yards of controversial and harrowing material to work from, and ample scope to develop the characterisations, but somehow this just finds it's way into a cul-de-sac and never really discovers a way out. The cas...

Bertaut

7y ago

6.0

**_Beautifully shot, but emotionally languid_** > **Studs Terkel**: _Did you feel a sense of shame about a heritage that is really so_ rich_, when you accepted the white man's stereotype of yourself?_ > >**James Baldwin**: _I'm afraid that is one of the great dilemmas, one of the_ great _psychological hazards, of being an American Negro. In fact, much more than that. I've seen a great many p...