Film

The Hate U Give

Director
George Tillman Jr.
Certificate
12A
Running Time
133 mins

Notorious director George Tillman Jr helms this adaptation of Angie Thomas‘s topical, bestselling YA crime novel, with Amandla Stenberg (Rue from The Hunger Games) as Starr Carter, who oscillates uncomfortably between the poor black neighbourhood in which she grew up and the privileged milieu of the mostly white prep school she attends.

Matters come to a head when she witnesses her best friend being shot dead by a cop. There was some controversy when a video emerged of ‘YouTube star’ Kian Lawley (me neither) using racist slurs, which led to him being fired from the role of Starr’s boyfriend.

By robin askew, Tuesday, Oct 16 2018

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