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Monster.
Former music video and commercial director Anthony Mandler’s debut feature film tells the story of seventeen-year-old student Steve Harmon, who is already showing tremendous promise as a filmmaker. When
Monster opens, though, he has just been arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder of a shopkeeper.
Unsurprisingly, Steve struggles in prison, and as he prepares for his trial alongside his lawyer Katherine O’Brien, we see his vivacious personality crumble and be replaced by anxiety. All the while, the film dives into Steve’s backstory, focusing on his relationship with his parents, his various friends and enemies in Harlem, and his camaraderie with his film teacher Leroy Sawicki.
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Don’t be put off by its generic and overused if ultimately appropriate title. “Monster” is a terrific film: a strong, absorbing, beautifully performed and crafted social drama that, unfortunately, proves even timelier today than when it was shot in 2017. (The movie, first seen at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in a somewhat longer version, was once set for a 2019 theatrical release but eventually landed at Netflix, where it premieres Friday.)
Based on the 1999 young adult novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers, the film follows the travails of 17-year-old Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), a budding filmmaker who lives with his loving, vigilant parents (Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Hudson) and younger brother (Nyleek Moore) in Harlem but attends Stuyvesant High, an elite magnet school in Lower Manhattan.
The official trailer for
Monster, following an honours student who is convicted for murder, has been released via Netflix’s YouTube channel and social media accounts. The movie is set for release on 7 May.
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WHAT IS ‘MONSTER’ ABOUT?
Monster, directed by Anthony Mandler, is based on the award-winning novel by Walter Dean Myers of the same title. The film premiered at the 2018
Sundance Film Festival and will now be released worldwide through Netflix.
The film stars Kelvin Harrison Junior as the 17-year-old Steve Harmon, an honours student and photographer who lives in Harlem, New York, and attends an elite high school. He is convicted of felony murder and fights a complicated legal battle in order to avoid spending the rest of his life behind bars.