While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Acting
Jeffrey Wright's volcanic, wounded performance.
Direction
Cole's fractured timeline mirrors inherited damage.
Cinematography
Oakland's muted colors feel like mourning.
Director
Joe Robert Cole
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cole co-wrote Black Panther; this is his rawer thesis on what kingship looks like when denied.
The title's a prison slang for life without parole—'all day' plus 'and a night' equals forever.
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Jeffrey Wright versatility is criminally underrated
@Mitochondresha 803
I wanna become a Netflix Writer so I can just write a show about a group of black kids who live in the suburbs and just deal with normal high school drama. I want a show where the fact that the characters are black doesn't become their whole identity. I'm so sick of the only black stories being told being our suffering.
@McBaller96 3140
one of my favorite scenes of the movie was when he was riding his bike and happened to merge with the kids riding their bikes. Saw himself in his innocent youth days and then they rode their bikes down opposite roads literally and figuratively
@CyMarlboro 265
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