Spike Lee’s Pass Over Premieres on Amazon Prime Video TodayPosted by Wilson Morales
April 20, 2018
Starting today, Amazon Studios’ Pass Over is available on Amazon Prime Video. Directed by Academy Award nominee and Honorary Oscar winning Spike Lee, the film had its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
Lee captures the poetry, humor and humanity of this urgent and timely play about two young black men talking trash, passing the time, and dreaming of the promised land.
Moses and Kitch, two young black men, chat their way through a long, aimless day on a Chicago street corner. Periodically ducking bullets and managing visits from a genial but ominous stranger and an overtly hostile police officer, Moses and Kitch rely on their poetic, funny, at times profane banter to get them through a day that is a hopeless retread of every other day, even as they continue to dream of their deliverance.
A provocative riff on Waiting for Godot, Pass Over is a filmed stage production written by playwright Antoinette Nwandu with stage direction by Danya Taymor (niece of Julie Taymor)..The cast includes John Michael Hill, Julian Parker, Ryan Hallahan and Blake DeLong.
The play world premiered last summer at Chicago’s celebrated Steppenwolf Theatre.
