The Obituary of Tunde Johnson is an American drama film, directed by Ali LeRoi and released in 2019. The film stars Steven Silver as Tunde Johnson, a gay African-American teenager who is trapped in a time loop that forces him to repeatedly relive the day of his fatal, racially motivated shooting by a police officer.
The film also stars Nicola Peltz as Marley Meyers, Tunde’s longtime friend; Spencer Neville as Soren O’Connor, a closeted classmate who is secretly dating both Tunde and Marley in a love triangle; David James Elliott as Soren’s father Alfred; and Sammi Rotibi and Tembi Locke as Tunde’s parents Ade and Yomi.
The screenplay was written by Stanley Kalu, a film student at the University of Southern California. It was the first-ever winner of The Launch, a screenwriting competition to find and develop screenplays by promising new writers on which LeRoi was a judge; the competition’s prize included the screenplay being produced as a feature film, and LeRoi signed on to direct it as his own feature film debut.
The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
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