Authors:

  • Barry Jenkins
Cover of If Beale Street Could Talk

Based on the novel by James Baldwin,  “a timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year-old Tish and her fiancé Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.

Citations

If Beale Street Could Talk. Directed by Barry Jenkins, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2019.