
Two souls on the run, bound by love and fueled by freedom.
While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results.
- 7.1
- 2019
- Released
- 2h 11m

Daniel Kaluuya
Slim
Jodie Turner-Smith
Queen
Bokeem Woodbine
Uncle Earl
Sturgill Simpson
Police Officer Reed
Flea
Mr. Shepherd
Chloë Sevigny
Mrs. Shepherd
Indya Moore
Goddess
Benito Martinez
Sheriff Edgar
Jahi Di'Allo Winston
Junior
Gralen Bryant Banks
Older Black Man
D.A. Obahor
Large Black Man
Bryant Tardy
Chubby
Thom Gossom Jr.
Slim's Father
Melanie Halfkenny
Naomi
Brian Thornton
Swat Leader
Joseph Poliquin
Cashier
Karen Kaia Livers
Bartender
Bertrand E. Boyd II
Black Man
Lucky Johnson
Black Cop at Protest
Reynolds Washam
Cop
Andre De'Sean Shanks
Black Cop
Robert Walker Branchaud
White Cop at Shepherd House
Colby Boothman-Shepard
Teenage White Boy
Andy Dylan
Cop (Bullhorn)
Regina Swanson
Newscaster
Soledad O'Brien
Herself
Gayle King
Herself
Gregory Keith Grainger
Black Cop







Released
en
$20,000,000.00
$47,803,176.00
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- #police officer killed
- #racist cop
- #first date
- #woman director
- #killer on the run
Reviews

The eponymous couple - Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith have hit it off after their first date and are driving when they are pulled over by a traffic cop. Quite quickly, things spiral out of control with both her and the cop shot - the latter, fatally. Almost immediately, they become Ohio's most wanted and with just about everyone on their tail. What happens next? On the face if it, the story

Queen & Slim was entertaining overall, and its social messaging that might have turned off viewers of a certain political world view worked for me. It will not make my greatest movie list, but it held my interest. Not because of its theme or message so much, but more for the character depth and development. I liked how the two main characters don't really even like each other (well, her at least)

To its credit, 'Queen & Slim' features some pretty stellar performances and great camerawork but has to work against the mammoth influence of its writing and pacing to make something memorable, and ultimately fails. It's a shame because Matsoukas shows promise as a filmmaker and clearly has important things to say, but appears to buckle under the pressure of having to do so. - Ashley Teresa Re

_**A powerful socio-political statement disguised as a road-movie**_ >_We'd never talked about it, but I figured you knew the rules. If a cop stopped, you didn't run, you didn't talk back, you didn't ever, ever get angry. White people could do that – hell, they could shoot up a church and then ask for Burger King – but not us. We got killed at traffic stops for speeding, for having broken taill











