Beats (2019 American film)

Beats
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Directed by	Chris Robinson
Written by	Miles Orion Feldsott
Produced by	Robert Teitel Christian Sarabia Glendon Palmer
Starring	Anthony Anderson Khalil Everage
Cinematography	Joshua Reis
Edited by	David Blackburn
Music by	Siddhartha Khosla
Production companies	Global Road Entertainment 51 Minds Entertainment Endemol Shine North America
Distributed by	Netflix
Release date	June 19, 2019 (2019-06-19) (United States)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Beats is a 2019 American coming-of-age-drama film directed by Chris Robinson and written by Miles Orion Feldsott. The film stars Anthony Anderson, Khalil Everage, Uzo Aduba, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Paul Walter Hauser, Dave East, Ashley Jackson, Evan J. Simpson, and Dreezy, and follows a reclusive, teenage music prodigy who forms an unlikely friendship with a struggling producer. United by their mutual love of hip-hop, they try to free each other from the demons of their past and break into the city's music scene. It was released onto Netflix on June 19, 2019, and received generally positive reviews from critics.