Queen & Slim new movie trailer HD<br />synopsis: <br />From trailblazing, Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe (Netflix's Master of None) and Melina Matsoukas, the visionary director of some of this generation's most powerful pop-culture experiences, including Beyonce's "Formation" and the Nike "Equality" campaign, comes Makeready's unflinching new drama, "QUEEN & SLIM."<br /><br />While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man (Get Out's Daniel Kaluuya) and a black woman (Jodie Turner-Smith, in her first starring feature-film role), are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people across the country.<br /><br />As they drive, these two unlikely fugitives will discover themselves and each other in the most dire and desperate of circumstances, and will forge a deep and powerful love that will reveal their shared humanity and shape the rest of their lives.<br /><br />Joining a legacy of films such as Bonnie and Clyde and Thelma & Louise, QUEEN & SLIM is a powerful, consciousness-raising love story that confronts the staggering human toll of racism and the life-shattering price of violence.<br /><br /> <br /><br />directed by Melina Matsoukas<br /><br />starring Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Chloe Sevigny, Bokeem Woodbine, Flea, Indya Moore, Sturgill Simpson<br /><br />release date November 27, 2019
