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 Written, directed and starring Ike Barinholtz as a liberal news
junkie, and Tiffany Haddish as his wife, the film is set around
a Thanksgiving gathering after the government demands, on pain
of arrest, all citizens to pledge an oath of allegiance to an
unnamed U.S. president.
The movie, which arrives in U.S. theaters on Friday, turns into
a tense horror film when law enforcement turns up to make an
arrest and family members are forced to choose between their
loyalty to each other and their political convictions.
Barinholtz denied the film's premise was far-fetched.
"As we were making the movie, there were things happening in
real life that were echoing the movie," he told Reuters
Television.
Barinholtz wrote the screenplay after President Donald Trump was
elected to the White House in 2016, and although Trump is never
mentioned in the film the director wanted it released before
Americans vote in the Nov. 6 congressional midterm elections.
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"We're at this very high concentration point with politics and the
midterms are going to be the next plateau. After that, we have
another two years to see what happens, so we thought if we could get
it out at this time we'd be hitting the target," he said.
Barinholtz said he hopes the divisive nature of current U.S.
politics would not permanently damage interpersonal relationships.
"Governments change ... We have to try and get to a point when that
is over, that we still have some fragments of our relationships
left," he said.
(Reporting by Reuters Television; Editing by Susan Thomas)
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