Moonlight

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Cast

Trevante Rhodes

as Black

André Holland

as Kevin

Janelle Monáe

as Teresa

Ashton Sanders

as Chiron

Jharrel Jerome

as Kevin Age 16

Alex R. Hibbert

as Little

Jaden Piner

as Kevin Age 9

Naomie Harris

as Paula

Mahershala Ali

as Juan

Shariff Earp

as Terrence

Reviews

Reno

**Blue is the warmest colour.** This is an exceptional film, but only from one perspective and that is, LGBT. I totally respect that, because I'm a big supporter. But apart from that, particularly from the filmmaking aspect I did not like it. I felt like this film took place somewhere in Africa, ...

CinemaSerf

It's the third segment of this that's the most interesting but the preceding two are essential in helping us to understand the situation in which the young "Chiron" (Alex R. Hibbert, then an effective Ashton Sanders as a troubled teenager before finally, by this latter point, Trevante Rhodes) finds ...

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