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Netflix has just released their timely book-to-screen adaptation of Monster, starring Kelvin Harrison Jr, Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Hudson, and Rakim Myers (better known as A$AP Rocky). The book, written by Walter Dean Myers, was originally published in 1999 but is still as relevant today as it is was then.

The film portrays a sequence of events that has happened far too many times: a 17-year-old Black boy is arrested for his alleged involvement in a murder he swears he didn’t commit, then put on trial and portrayed by the prosecution as a monster.

The film tells this unfortunate story in a way we haven’t seen it before: from the inside out. Netflix’s Monster will be sure to evoke many emotions and questions for streamers, just as the book has done for so many readers.

FROM NETFLIX:

Monster tells the story of Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) a seventeen-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder. The film follows his dramatic journey from a smart, like-able film student from Harlem attending an elite high school through a complex legal battle that could leave him spending the rest of his life in prison.