After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2020, Netflix is bringing the father-son drama
Concrete Cowboy to the streaming service in April.
The first
Caleb McLaughlin of
Stranger Things) who gets sent from Detroit to North Philadelphia, where he’s dumped on the doorstep of his estranged father, Harp (
Idris Elba). But that’s not the only drastic change that Cole is in for when he arrives in town.
Concrete Cowboy Trailer
Inspired by the novel
Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri and based on the real life Fletcher Street cowboys of Philadelphia, this looks like a standard coming-of-age, father-son drama. And even though our own Chris Evangelista says that it paints by the numbers when it comes to the story, he also found plenty to love. In his review from TIFF last year, he wrote: