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Double Play (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Double Play' is a 2017 drama film directed by Ernest Dickerson. It is based on Curaaoan author Frank Martinus Arion's internationally acclaimed Dutch-language novel 'Dubbelspel'. The title 'Double Play' refers to a move in dominoes where a player can play a final domino on either end of the snake, earning that team double points.
Plot
Ostrik, now a grown man working as a doctor in the Netherlands, returns to his childhood home on the island of Curaao and recalls his experiences with his family and neighbors there during a time of colonial unrest in the 1970s. Each Sunday his father Bubu would play dominoes with his friends while discussing a variety of issues as Ostrik would observe. After chasing bus drivers away from an important location for taxi cabs, Bubu becomes the likely choice for president of a newly formed taxi cab union. That Sunday the union meeting for the election is scheduled to be held at his house but the drivers witness Bubu experiencing a day-long losing streak at dominoes and they begin to lose confidence in him until he gives a rousing speech about revolution. Before he has the opportunity to become president, he gets into a fight with the man his wife is sleeping with and loses his life. Ostrik returns years later to confront his father's killer over a game of dominoes.
Cast
*Lennie James as Chamon
*Melanie Liburd as Solema
*La La Anthony as Micha
*Bronson Pinchot as Bob
*Louis Gossett Jr. as Coco
*Colin Salmon as Old Ostrik
*Mustafa Shakir as Manchi
*Isaach De Bankol as Ernesto
*Barbara Eve Harris as Old Vera
*Alexander Karim as Bubu
*Saycon Sengbloh as Nora
*Dani Dare as Ostrik
*Heather Jocelyn Blair as Bob's Prim Wife
Production
The film is adapted from Curaaoan author Frank Martinus Arion's Dutch-language novel 'Dubbelspel'. Filming took place on Curaao.
References
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