Native Son

(2019)

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Synopsis

Updating the 1940 classic novel by Richard Wright into a contemporary setting, Native Son tells the story of Bigger Thomas (Ashton Sanders), a young African-American from Chicago who is hired as a chauffeur by a wealthy white businessman, Will Dalton (Bill Camp). As Bigger enters this seductive new world of money and power – including a precarious relationship with Dalton’s daughter, Mary (Margaret Qualley) – he faces unforeseen choices and perilous circumstances that will alter the course of his life. Directed by renowned contemporary artist Rashid Johnson, with a screenplay written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, Native Son shrewdly and provocatively modernizes this classic story for our current age, inflecting Native Son with an up-to-the-minute timeliness while drawing fascinating parallels to today’s social and political landscape.

Cast

Ashton Sanders, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, KiKi Layne, Bill Camp