Luce (2019)

Directors

Julius Onah

Cast

Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Tim Roth, Norbert Leo Butz, Andrea Bang, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Brian "Astro" Bradley, Omar Shariff Brunson Jr., Christopher Mann, Colton Osorio, Gibson Frazier, Ian Unterman, Meredith Holzman, Liza J. Bennett, Souleymane Sy Savane

The story

Born in war-torn Eritrea and adopted in the United States by a progressive White family, Luce Edgar is an all-star high school athlete and accomplished public speaker who is adored by other students and his adoptive parents, Peter and Amy. However, he has animosity towards his history teacher, Harriet Wilson, who got his friend DeShaun kicked off the running team after finding marijuana in his locker. Amy meets with Harriet, who shows her Luce has written a paper about political revolutionary Frantz Fanon, arguing that colonialism can be overcome through violence.

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