Two-time Academy Award nominee John Sayles (Lone Star, Passion Fish) is back with Go for Sisters, a detective story, a buddy movie, an immigration exposé, a rehabilitation saga and so much more. LisaGay Hamilton (“The Practice”) stars as Bernice, a parole officer who enlists the aid of her childhood friend Fontayne, and recent parolee, to venture into the criminal underwold and locate her missing son. Yolonda Ross (Treme) co-stars as Fontayne, who in this CraveOnline Exclusive clip is visted by an old friend played by Harold Perrineau (“Lost”) with a disturbing offer.
Go for Sisters is now playing in select New York and Los Angeles theaters, and will expand nationwide in November and December.
From the Press Release:
Bernice (LisaGay Hamilton) and Fontayne (Yolonda Ross) grew up the closest of friends, but time sent them down different paths. Twenty years later, those paths cross: Fontayne is a recovering addict fresh out of jail, and Bernice is her new parole officer. When Bernice’s son Rodney goes missing on the Mexican border, his shady associates all in hiding or brutally murdered, Bernice relalizes she needs someone with the connections to navigate Rodney’s world without involving the police… and turns to her old friend. The pair enlist the services of disgraced ex-LAPD detective Freddy Suárez (Edward James Olmos) and plunge into the dim underbelly of Tijuana, forced to unravel a complex web of human traffickers, smugglers, and corrupt cops before Rodney meets the same fate as his partners. As much a story of relationships as a story of crime, GO FOR SISTERS is a welcome return to the border for master filmmaker John Sayles (Lone Star).
