Your future's worth fighting for.
An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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Cast
- Jay WillRobert DeShaun Peace
- Mary J. BligeJackie Peace
- Chiwetel EjioforRobert E. 'Skeet' Douglas
- Camila CabelloNaya
- Michael KellyEdwin Leahy
- Mare WinninghamProfessor Durham
- Gbenga AkinnagbeCarl
- Juan CastanoOswaldo Gutierrez
- Lori HammelJury Foreperson
- Benjamin PapacJeff Hobbs
Crew
- Chiwetel EjioforDirector
- Chiwetel EjioforWriter
- Jeff HobbsNovel
- Ksenia SeredaDirector of Photography
- Jeff RussoOriginal Music Composer
- Masahiro HirakuboEditor
- Jeffrey SorosProducer
- Antoine FuquaProducer
- Rebecca HobbsProducer
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