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.
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