PREVIEW: Concrete Cowboy (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Idris Elba (Pacific Rim), Caleb McLaughlin (High Flying Bird), Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight), Lorraine Toussaint (Selma), Byron Bowers (Honey Boy), Method Man (How High), Ivannah-Mercedes (film debut), Devenie Young (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Ricky Staub (film debut), director, writer; Dan Walser (film debut), writer, producer; Lee Daniels (The Butler), Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation), Jennifer Madeloff (Vice), Tucker Tooley (Den of Thieves) and Jeff G. Waxman (Painted Hero), producers; Kevin Matley (Kifaru), composer; Minka Farthing-Kohl (film debut), cinematographer; Luke Ciarrocchi (Glass), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Cole (McLaughlin) is a teen who is sent to live with his estranged father Harp (Elba) in North Pennsylvania, where he discovers the area’s vibrant urban cowboy subculture that has provided a safe haven for the neighbourhood despite the surrounding poverty, violence, and threat of gentrification…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Idris Elba saddles up for a very different type of cowboy tale, which also stars Stranger Things actor Caleb McLaughlin as a teen who comes of age in a vibrant urban cowboy society.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 2ND APRIL 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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