IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK 2018 117 minutes

Based on the novel by James Baldwin and set in the early 70s Harlem, this film tells the story of Tish and Fonnie, two childhood friends who have started a romantic relationship. Fonnie hopes to be an artist, but life becomes progressively more difficult when Tish becomes pregnant and Fonnie is arrested on trumped-up charges. At turns heartbreaking and infuriating, this story about love struggling to prevail amidst oppression proves to be a supremely resonant journey.

BE ADVISED–– This film is rated R, with smoking, drinking, and intense moments of profanity, sexual intercourse, sexual harassment, domestic violence as well as chronic structural and institutional racism.