Get Out

Selected by Carrie Mae Weems

Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning Best Original Screenplay is about a young New Yorker, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), who accompanies his girlfriend (Allison Williams) home to meet the parents. The casual racism and falsely smiling social privilege that imbues her parents’ white suburbia turns from mildly suffocating to downright sinister as the weekend wears on, leading Chris to uncover an unimaginable dark secret about the community. In its elucidation of “The Sunken Place,” Get Out gave American viewers a powerful racial allegory for the ages, and confirmed Peele as a trail-blazing voice for a new kind of American horror movie.

Part of the Fraenkel Film Festival