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UPDATE: Apr. 12, 2025, 6:00 a.m. EDT This article has been updated with the Prime Video streaming release details, as well as the latest pricing to rent or purchase “Nickel Boys” online.
Gracing the top three on our list of the best films of 2024, Nickel Boys is truly transformative. An adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, it relies heavily on first-person POV shots to tell the story of a violent reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida from the perspective of its protagonists. Mashable’s reviewer called it “exquisite and powerful” and we’re unsurprised that it nabbed nominations for both Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay at this year’s Oscars.
Nickel Boys officially made its streaming debut on Feb. 28 on MGM+, but now the film is expanding its streaming horizons, giving you another way to tune in. Here’s everything you need to know in order to watch.
What is Nickel Boys about?
Adapted from the 2019 novel by Colson Whitehead — which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction — Nickel Boys follows 16-year-old Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse) and his friend Turner (Brandon Wilson). A promising advanced high schooler, Elwood finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, leading to false charges and imprisonment at a juvenile reform home called the Nickel Academy.
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