The Obituary of Tunde Johnson

The Obituary of Tunde Johnson

2019104 min5.2 / 10

A dark, existentially weighted time-loop thriller that uses supernatural entrapment to force a young Black gay man to confront systemic violence, identity, and mortality.

A wealthy, Nigerian-American teenager is pulled over by police, shot to death, and immediately awakens, trapped in a terrifying time loop that forces him to confront difficult truths about his life and himself.

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