Successful adaptation of best-selling YA novel by Angie Thomas. Prompted to write by the police shooting of African American Oscar Grant, Thomas expanded her original short story into a novel following subsequent police killings. 

Centring on 16-year-old Starr Carter, who moves between her private prep school and her poor home neighbourhood, the girl is spurred to activism after she witnesses police shooting her friend, Khalil. Rapper turned actor, Common, also stars.