Akilla's Escape (2020) on Netflix
With legalization, Akilla Brown is leaving his marijuana trade behind. After an armed robbery he captures Sheppard, a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy, and the two face one long night.
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- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb5.6/10444 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes84%
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Plot summary
Akilla Brown sells marijuana, and legalization has him retiring from the trade. After an armed robbery he captures Sheppard, a Jamaican boy of fifteen, and the two spend one long night together. Akilla looks back at a cycle of violence passed down between generations, one he believed he had left behind, and he tries to keep the boy from being drawn into crime.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Akilla's Escape (2020)
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- Charles Officer started writing Akilla's Escape in 2010. The film drew on a police crackdown on the Shower Posse crime gang's Toronto chapter.
