RETROGRADE
Director Bert LaBonté (Topdog/Underdog) helms this 'wickedly funny' (The Standard) and unsettlingly relevant drama, led by newcomer Donné Ngabo (Last Days), stage star Josh McConville (Sunday) and screen veteran Alan Dale (24, The O.C.).
Hollywood's Golden Age gleams with money and ambition, but McCarthyism lurks beneath the surface. A young Sidney Poitier walks into a television studio for what should be his breakout role. But as the network's lawyer turns the meeting into an interrogation, and the screenwriter's loyalties come under suspicion, the true cost of ambition emerges.
One room, one conversation, everything at stake.