Directed by:
George Tillman Jr.Screenplay:
Audrey WellsCinematography:
Mihai Malaimare Jr.Composer:
Dustin O'HalloranCast:
Amandla Stenberg, Anthony Mackie, Common, Issa Rae, Sabrina Carpenter, K.J. Apa, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Lamar Johnson, Algee Smith, Dominique Fishback (more)VOD (5)
Plots(1)
Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) lives two lives. In her working-class neighbourhood, she is Starr Version One, at home among family and friends, just being her teenage Black girl self. At school she is Version Two, code-switching her speech and behaviour to fit in with the rich, white world of her classmates. One night back in the neighbourhood she reconnects with her childhood sweetheart, Khalil (Algee Smith). A blissful ride turns ugly when their car is pulled over by police. Khalil makes one wrong move and is shot dead. There are only two witnesses: the police officer and Starr. Caught between worlds at a time when she is still working out who she is, Starr struggles to make the right choices. Should she testify or keep the code of silence demanded by the neighbourhood drug lord (Anthony Mackie)? Should she listen to her uncle Carlos (Common), a police officer who urges her to trust the justice system? And what can she say to her friends at school, whose opinions on police violence and crime in Black neighbourhoods suddenly opens a gulf she finds hard to bridge. (Toronto International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Amandla Stenberg
USA
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Anthony Mackie
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Common
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Issa Rae
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Sabrina Carpenter
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K.J. Apa
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Regina Hall
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Russell Hornsby
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Lamar Johnson
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Dominique Fishback
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Drew Starkey
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Susan Santiago
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James Healy Jr.
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Rayven Symone Ferrell
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Chuck Chapman
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Karan Kendrick
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Athena Akers
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Abby Glover
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Brittany Inge
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