Ashton Sanders, teenaged Chiron in "Moonlight." Credit ... Juan's footsteps and is now a drug dealer himself with a blinged-out grill. He's a man of few words, and in that silence you can hear ...

“It evolved when the character is also evolving,” says Laxton. Throughout Moonlight Chiron’s character maintains a sense of childlike behavior that carries into his adulthood. “There are ...

Don’t get it wrong, “Boyhood” was excellent, but “Moonlight” is far different. The film follows Chiron, starting with his life as a young boy in a bad neighborhood in Miami, eventually progressing to ...

Three time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chiron is presented. When a child, Chiron lives with his single, crack addict mother Paula in a ...

It is there we first meet Chiron, a small, under-nourished schoolboy nicknamed ‘Little’ who falls in with Juan (Mahershala Ali), the local drug dealer, and his girlfriend, Teresa (Janelle Monáe).

In an early scene of this powerful and unusual film, a boy called Chiron but nicknamed Little ... the emotional content of the film. “Moonlight,” composer Britell said in an interview ...