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Emily Rios appears in If Beale Street Could Talk, the film adaptation of the book by James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk, first published in 1974.
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If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin, 1974
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Barry Jenkins, 2018
Clementine Tish Rivers and Alonzo Fonny Hunt have been friends their whole lives, and begin a romantic relationship when they are older. A white policeman nearby, Officer Bell, witnesses the incident and attempts to arrest Fonny, but reluctantly lets him go when the white woman who runs the grocery store vouches for them and chastises Bell for his racism.