Poster To Indie Comedy ‘Furlough,’ Starring Tessa Thompson, Melissa Leo & Whoopi GoldbergPosted by Wilson Morales
March 16, 2018
IFC Films has released the poster to Furlough, starring Tessa Thompson, Melissa Leo, Whoopi Goldberg, Anna Pauqin, Edgar Ramirez, and La La Anthony.
Directed by Laurie Collyer from a script written by Barry Strugatz, the film will open Friday, March 16th in theaters and on VOD.
Tessa Thompson, Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, and Whoopi Goldberg lead a dynamite ensemble cast in this alternately rollicking and poignant comedy from director Laurie Collyer (the acclaimed Sherrybaby). In between caring for her mother (Goldberg), a young woman (Thompson) works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she’s tasked with accompanying a hell-raising inmate (Leo) on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But things soon spiral out of control, sending the pair on a hilarious, surprising, and ultimately touching road trip.
In 2010, Goldberg and Thompson played mother and daughter in Tyler Perry‘s adaptation of Ntozake Shange‘s 1975 original choreopoem For Colored Girls.
