Monster (Netflix)
Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), a 17-year-old honor student from Harlem and aspiring filmmaker, is living his best life. He gets good grades in school, has a loving family and also a beautiful and supportive girlfriend. He spends his days exploring the streets of Harlem, taking street level photos and on-the-fly footage with people in his community.
However, his world is turned upside down when he unfortunately gets caught in the middle of a robbery in a bodega that results in a murder, with law enforcement assuming him to be an accomplice. Now standing trial for acting as a lookout during the lethal armed robbery, Steve is seen as just another young black criminal, painted as a felon, a thug, and a monster. Possibly facing a lifetime sentence, Steve now enters a complex legal battle, and despite the odds, fights for his freedom against the system that failed him in the first place.
Based on the award-winning novel by Walter Dean Myers.
| Director: | Anthony Mandler |
| Studio: | Netflix |
| Producer(s): | Aaron L. Gilbert, Nikki Silver, Mike Jackson, Tonya Lewis Lee, Edward Tyler Nahem |
| Cast: | Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jennifer Ehle, Tim Blake Nelson, Nasir 'Nas' Jones, A$AP Rocky, Paul Ben-Victor, John David Washington, Jennifer Hudson, Jeffrey Wright |
| Writer(s): | Radha Blank, Cole Wiley, Janece Shaffer |
| Official Site: | netflix.com/title/81121351 |
