Ten years after his 2016 Birth of a Nation film flopped at the box office—thanks in part to resurfaced rape allegations—filmmaker Nate Parker is hoping to make a comeback with a new film, Newborn, opening in movie theaters this weekend.
Is 10 years enough time for the public to forget that Parker’s rape accuser committed suicide in 2012, six years after he was acquitted of charges of raping her while a student at Penn State? I guess we’ll find out!
Written and directed by Parker, Newborn stars David Oyelowo as a man who is released from prisons, where he spent years locked in solitary confinement. Now, he’s released into a society and finds a new type of isolation. The movie was filmed at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in September 2020, but struggled to find a distribution deal, and languished in unreleased purgatory for six years. But now,
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