In this strange and muddled drama, Octavia Spencer plays a teacher who makes an unsettling discovery about one of her pupils
Here is a contemporary ensemble drama that sets out to stress test fault lines in US society – racial, sexual, generational. It is adapted by JC Lee from his off-Broadway play and the director is Julius Onah.
Kelvin Harrison Jr plays Luce, a brilliant African-American high-school student heading for future greatness. His career is all the more remarkable considering that at seven years old, he had been an Eritrean child soldier, adopted by a white liberal couple, Amy (Naomi Watts) and Peter (Tim Roth). But Luce has this too-good-to-be-true broad smile and borderline insufferable attitude of praise for his school.