2018 · crime · drama · coming-of-age
The Hate U Give
Directed by George Tillman Jr.2h 13m2018
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
Our read: The Hate U Give (2018) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded crime · drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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