Monster is a 2018 American legal drama film directed by
Anthony Mandler, from a screenplay by Radha Blank, Cole Wiley, and Janece Shaffer, based on the novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers. It stars
Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jennifer Ehle, Tim Blake Nelson, Nas, ASAP Rocky, Paul Ben-Victor, John David Washington, Jennifer Hudson, and Jeffrey Wright. Wright, Nas, and John Legend also serve as executive producers on the film. Three years after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2018, the film was acquired by
Netflix and released on May 7, 2021. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
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