“We Grown Now” (2024) – As director/writer Minhal Baig’s film opens, two elementary-age schoolboys, Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez), drag a twin-size mattress through the hallway of an apartment building. With a broken elevator temporally halting the dynamic duo’s expedition, they shuffle to the stairs and, eventually, outside as they lug the 8-foot sleeping apparatus down various streets for an unknown goal. Well, Malik and Eric attain their ultimate purpose – which will not be revealed in this review – but to give a hint, their…
‘We Grown Now’ is a poetic story about childhood friendship
