Concrete Cowboy Updates: Concrete Drama is finally coming to Netflix on April 2, and therefore the streaming giant has debuted the official trailer before its debut.
Neri, the coming-of-age drama stars Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things) as Cole, a 15-year-old boy sent to measure together with his estranged, urban-cowboy father, portrayed by Idris Elba (Luther, The Wire). The real-life Fletcher Street Stables, a Black horsemanship community in Philadelphia, is the inspiration for both the novel and therefore the film.
Concrete Cowboy: The Trailer
POPSUGARThe trailer primarily depicts Cole’s difficulty adapting to the subculture of the urban cowboys of North Philly, a life-style that his father sometimes seems to worry about quite the son who just re-entered his life.
It also provides closer looks at the film’s impressive ensemble of largely Black talent, which incorporates Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight), Lorraine Toussaint (Orange is that the New Black), and rapper/actor, Clifford “Method Man” Smith (Keanu).
The film also marks the full-length directorial debut of Ricky Staub, whose short film, The Cage, won the grand prize at the 2017 Heartland International festival.
In a 2018 interview with Philadelphia Magazine, Staub details how once-and-always sexiest man alive, Elba, came on board to supply and co-star in his film as a part of a conscious effort by The Suicide Squad actor to seem in additional projects that galvanize the African American community.
Ricky Staub’s stirring father-son drama “Concrete Drama,” during which Idris Elba plays a father struggling to reconnect alongside his estranged son, first premiered way back at the Toronto International festival in September.
Story of this fascinating movie
ComingSoonIn this drama inspired by the real-life Fletcher Street Stables, 15-year-old Cole is taken to measure together with his estranged father Harp in North Philadelphia.
There he discovers the city’s vibrant urban cowboy subculture, which has existed for quite 100 years providing a secure haven for the neighborhood despite the encompassing poverty, violence, and encroachment of gentrification. Cole is forced to make a decision on which path he will absorb the Netflix film.
While spending the summer in North Philadelphia, a troubled teen is caught between a lifetime of crime and his estranged father’s vibrant urban-cowboy subculture.
This story of family reconciliation invites us into one among America’s most original subcultures, a generations-old world of Black horse trainers on the streets of North Philly. Cole (McLaughlin) is a troubled 15-year-old. After a fight gets him expelled from yet one more Detroit school, his fed-up mother drives him 600 miles east and drops him on his father’s doorstep.
