

If Beale Street Could Talk
It may be dark at times for some. The story tells of the great challenges faced by a woman named Tish, a new Harlem woman who continues to face great challenges to prove her lover's innocence while carrying her first baby. Tish appears to be the woman who proves to be a celebration of love through the story of a young couple and their families and their controversial lives.















29 December 1979, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

28 October 1984, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA


23 August 1971, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA


29 March 1983, Camden, London, England, UK







28 November 1969, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


21 February 1969, San Francisco, California, USA



12 June 1985, Palo Alto, California, USA

16 December 1993, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

5 August 1962, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

29 June 1995, Bronxville, New York, USA


4 September 1963, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

27 April 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA



2 March 1971, Shkodër, Albania

15 January 1971, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

2 April 1975, Santiago, Chile



February 26, 2019
The score is absolutely amazing, and truthfully, I love everything about this film.
February 24, 2019
If you're putting together a list of the 10 best films of the year, see If Beale Street Could Talk and you'll only need 9 more.
February 22, 2019
I liked it, but I thought the editing was very distracting and it was a little slow in some parts.
March 02, 2019
Jenkins performs a miracle avoiding bathos while baring raw emotion, presenting the cruelty of the world and its bitter fruit without dulling the love that makes living worthwhile.
December 27, 2018
James Laxton's cinematography is even more richly hued than his work on Jenkins's Moonlight, and the sound design and Nicholas Britell's score add to the movie's brimming sensory pleasures.
March 03, 2019
The formal elegance on display fills, and sometimes overwhelms, the heart.
December 26, 2018
This movie works as a timeless romance, a family drama, a legal thriller and a poignant social commentary. A great American novel has been turned into a great American film.
February 06, 2019
Here is a film almost woozy with its own beauty and dignity, a film going transcendently high in the face of a racist world going low.
February 27, 2019
Jenkins's work should be defining the mainstream...
January 11, 2019
That's pure cinema. What Baldwin does with words, Mr. Jenkins does visually.
December 26, 2018
If a powerful kick to your gut's sense of social justice is what you're looking for, you can't do any better.
February 21, 2019
Just as the novel version of If Beale Street Could Talk moves between love story and protest novel, a balance Baldwin strikes throughout many of his works, Jenkins' adaptation uses flashbacks to oscillate between two worlds.