A motion picture film by Ernest Dickerson based on the book by Frank Martinus Arion. Double Play is a vibrant, multi-textural drama set against the beauty and bittersweet complexity of Curacao, where poverty and wealth are two sides of the same coin. In a high stakes game of dominoes the players confront their lust, desperation, rage and remorse with deadly consequences. In this game, as in life, no opponent is more formidable than destiny.
Ernest Dickerson is an Emmy, Peabody, and two-time Image Award winning film and television director and cinematographer. Dickerson has directed films such as Juice (1992), Surviving the Game (1994), Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995), Bulletproof (1996), Bones (2001), Never Die Alone (2004). Most recently he directed the premiere of season 2 of the HBO series Raised by Wolves (2022) among many others. Dickerson served as Director of Photography on the classic Spike Lee films She's Gotta Have It , School Daze, Do The Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues and Malcolm X.
The lovely and talented cast of Double Play features world-renowned actors such as: Colin Salmon (Resident Evil),
Lou Gossett Jr (Watchmen), Lennie James (Walking Dead) , Barbara Eve Harris (The Amazing Spider-man), and Isaach De Bankole (Black Panther).
Along with rising stars such as Mustafa Shakir (Cowboy Bebop), Melanie Liburd (This Is Us), Alexander Karim (Tyrant),
Saycon Sengbloh, (Wonder Years), Alani "Lala" Anthony (Power), and Dani Dare (NCIS: New Orleans).
Colin Salmon playing as Ostrik.
"You can't be mad at a man for wanting to have fun."
Dominoes play an important role on the island of Curacao.
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