TV One To Air Downsized Starring Boris Kodjoe & Nicole Ari Parker On Sept. 16Posted by Wilson Morales
September 16, 2017
Premiering tonight, Saturday, Sept. 16 at 9 p.m. on TV One, is the original film “Downsized.”
The film was directed by Rhonda Baraka, from a script written by the 2016 TV One American Black Film Festival Screenplay Competition finalist Michelle McKissic.
Downsized stars Boris Kodjoe as Michael, Sr., Nicole Ari Parker as Ebony, Alix Lapri Geier as Madison, Racquel Bianca John as Michelle, Isaiah John as Mike, Jr., and Tia Hendricks as Malaysia.
The story follows Kodjoe and Parker as Michael and Ebony, high school sweethearts who were forced into marriage by their parents after a teen pregnancy. Fast forward 25 years and four children later, and Michael and Ebony typify the modern family – successful careers, beautiful home and all the trappings of success. To the world, they appear to have it all. Yet, the rewards that success has brought them have instead driven the family further apart from each other.
Michael and Ebony have reached a crossroads in their marriage and are ready to carry out their plan to go their separate ways following their eldest daughter’s graduation from law school. However, Michael has a change of heart. Hoping to reignite the spark that first brought them together, he whisks the family away for a month-long vacation, returning to their first home in the countryside to unplug and reconnect with one another. The trip becomes a journey of self-discovery for Michael and Ebony, as well as their children. Will the couple that appears to have it all on the surface discover that everything they really want, they already have?
