Trailer And Poster To Craig Robinson’s ‘Morris From America’Posted by Wilson Morales
June 14, 2016
A24 has released the trailer and poster to its upcoming film, ‘Morris From America’ directed by Chad Hartigan and starring newcomer Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson, Carla Juri, and Lina Keller.
MORRIS FROM AMERICA will be available exclusively on DIRECTV beginning July 7th and opens theatrically in select cities on August 19th.
The film made its World Premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Screening Award and Special Jury Prize for Craig Robinson’s performance.
Morris Gentry (Markees Christmas) is a 13-year-old, overweight, African-American boy who fancies himself the next Notorious B.I.G. He’s entering puberty, self-conscious, and new to living in Heidelberg, Germany, where nobody else looks or acts like him. His single father Curtis (Craig Robertson) is better at relating to Morris as a friend than a father, bonding with his son over their shared love of music. Initially, Morris only interacts with Curtis and Inka (Carla Juri), his kind – if naïve – German language tutor, but when forced to attend summer classes at a youth center, he instantly falls in love. 15-year-old Katrin (Lina Keller) is just the girl for Morris: rebellious, cool as ice, and not as indifferent toward him as the other kids.
As the two begin to develop a slow friendship (albeit one that Morris hopes will be the start of something deeper), Morris drifts further from Curtis, who is having a hard time of his own adjusting to his son’s burgeoning adolescence. In the wake of these changing relationships, Morris risks everything in a journey far outside of his comfort zone toward self-confidence and acceptance in this new, foreign environment.
