It’s an emotional journey that may very well become a major contender come awards season, but it’s not necessarily the dry, overly dramatic piece of cinema that you might expect from the end of the year Oscar bait.
It’s based on a YA novel and the film is designed to appeal to a much wider audience.
The Hate U Give follows the experience of an African-American teenage girl, played to perfection by Amandla Stenberg, that’s caught between her mostly black neighborhood and her mostly white prep school when a friend of hers is killed in a police officer-involved shooting.