Monster (2018 film)

E838492

Monster (2018 film) is a legal drama about a Black honor student whose life is upended when he is charged with felony murder and must fight to prove his innocence within a biased criminal justice system.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Monster (2018 film) canonical 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf film
alternateTitle All Rise NERFINISHED
basedOn Monster (novel) NERFINISHED
novel by Walter Dean Myers
cinematographyBy David Devlin NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Anthony Mandler NERFINISHED
distributor Netflix NERFINISHED
editedBy Joe Klotz NERFINISHED
genre crime drama
legal drama
hasSubject American legal system
criminal trials
felony murder
mainCharacter Steve Harmon NERFINISHED
musicBy Harvey Mason Jr. NERFINISHED
originalLanguage English
platformRelease Netflix NERFINISHED
plotSummary A Black honor student is charged with felony murder and fights to prove his innocence in a biased criminal justice system.
premieredAt Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED
premiereDate 2018-01-22
producer Jeffrey Wright NERFINISHED
John Legend NERFINISHED
Nina Yang Bongiovi NERFINISHED
Tonya Lewis Lee NERFINISHED
protagonistEthnicity Black
protagonistOccupation high school student
protagonistTrait honor student
releaseDate 2021-05-07
runtime 98 minutes
screenwriter Cole Wiley NERFINISHED
Janece Shaffer NERFINISHED
Radha Blank NERFINISHED
setIn Harlem NERFINISHED
starring A$AP Rocky NERFINISHED
Jeffrey Wright NERFINISHED
Jennifer Ehle NERFINISHED
Jennifer Hudson NERFINISHED
John David Washington NERFINISHED
Kelvin Harrison Jr. NERFINISHED
Nas NERFINISHED
Tim Blake Nelson NERFINISHED
theme coming of age
identity
presumption of guilt
racial bias in the criminal justice system

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tonya Lewis Lee producerOf Monster (2018 film)
Anthony Mandler directed Monster (2018 film)