Monster (2018 film)

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Monster (2018 film) is a legal drama about a Black honor student whose life is upended when he is charged with felony murder and must fight to prove his innocence within a biased criminal justice system.

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instanceOf film
alternateTitle All Rise
basedOn Monster (novel)
linked to: Monsters (novel)

novel by Walter Dean Myers
cinematographyBy David Devlin
countryOfOrigin United States
director Anthony Mandler
distributor Netflix
editedBy Joe Klotz
genre crime drama
legal drama
hasSubject American legal system
criminal trials
felony murder
mainCharacter Steve Harmon
musicBy Harvey Mason Jr.
originalLanguage English
platformRelease Netflix
plotSummary A Black honor student is charged with felony murder and fights to prove his innocence in a biased criminal justice system.
premieredAt Sundance Film Festival
premiereDate 2018-01-22
producer Jeffrey Wright
John Legend
Nina Yang Bongiovi
Tonya Lewis Lee
protagonistEthnicity Black
protagonistOccupation high school student
protagonistTrait honor student
releaseDate 2021-05-07
runtime 98 minutes
screenwriter Cole Wiley
Janece Shaffer
Radha Blank
setIn Harlem
starring A$AP Rocky
Jeffrey Wright
Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Hudson
John David Washington
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Nas
Tim Blake Nelson
theme coming of age
identity
presumption of guilt
racial bias in the criminal justice system

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Tonya Lewis Lee producerOf Monster (2018 film)
Anthony Mandler directed Monster (2018 film)