Annapurna Pictures will release Academy Award-winning Beale Street and Moonlight director Barry Jenkins’ film If Beale Street Could Talk on Movies Anywhere March 12 and buy it on Blu-ray and DVD March 26.
Regina King, Barry Jenkins and Nicholas Britell all received Academy Award nominations associated with their work on IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK. King was nominated for Actress in a Supporting Role. Barry Jenkins is in the running for the award for Adapted Screenplay; and Nicholas Britell earned his nod in the category of Original Score.
The cast of the film includes Kiki Layne, Stephan James, Teyonah Parris, Regina King, Colman Domingo, Brian Tyree Henry, Dave Franco, Ed Skrein, Michael Beach, Aunjanue Ellis and Finn Wittrock and Diego Luna.
Based on the novel by James Baldwin, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” follows Tish (Layne), a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover’s innocence while carrying their first born child. The movie is a celebration of love told through the story of a young couple, their families, and their lives.
James plays Fonny, Tish’s fiance, while Parris is Tish’s streetwise sister, Ernestine, who is determined to help her future brother-in-law prove his innocence. King plays Tish’s mother, Sharon with Domingo as Joseph, Tish’s fiercely loving father who makes his daughter’s crusade his own. Henry is Daniel Carty, a friend of Fonny (James). Ellis and Beach are Alice and Frank Hunt, the parents of Fonny.
Special Features Include (Digital, Blu-ray™ & DVD):
- Deleted scenes
- Featurette:
- If Beale Street Could Talk: Poetry in Motion
- Audio Commentary by Barry Jenkins
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