New trailer for John Sayles’ Go For SistersPosted by Wilson Morales
October 26, 2013
Variance Films has released a new trailer for John Sayles’ Go For Sisters, which hits theaters on Nov. 8 and stars Yolonda Ross and LisaGay Hamilton as two estranged childhood friends whose lives intersect again as recovering addict and parole officer.
Bernice Stokes and Fontayne Gamble grew up the closest of friends. After high school Bernice got into social services and corrections work, Fontayne just got into trouble. Twenty years later Bernice is assigned as parole officer for Fontayne– just released from prison and fighting a drug habit. But Bernice’s son Rodney, has gone missing on the Mexican border, his shady partners in hiding or brutally murdered. Fontayne, through a prison girlfriend, enlists Freddy Suárez (Olmos), a disgraced, near-blind ex-LAPD detective once known as ‘the Terminator’, to help them find Rodney. Outlaws on a noble quest, they are lured into a potentially deadly cat-and-mouse game with mysterious Chinese smugglers.
When one woman’s son goes missing along the Mexican border, she enlists her old pal to investigate the seedy underbelly of Tijuana with the help of an ex-LAPD cop played by Edward James Olmos.
Alejandro Springall, Peter Bobrow, and Olmos produced the pic. Sayles’ 18th feature film as writer and director (he also served as editor) will get a theatrical release on November 8 in NY, expanding to LA on November 15 with additional expansion to follow.
A digital and home video release is planned for early 2014, the first time in five years that Variance will venture beyond theatrical into ancillary distribution. Go For Sisters premiered earlier this year at the SXSW Film Festival and also stars Harold Perrineau, Jacob Vargas, and Isaiah Washington.
