Synopsis
American Son (2019) is a confined drama you can watch online on iFILM — adapted by playwright Christopher Demos-Brown from his own Broadway production, directed by Kenny Leon, who staged both the play and this Netflix version. Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale play a separated interracial couple reunited by a crisis: their Black teenage son hasn't come home.
The whole film takes place in one Florida police waiting room. Officer Stokes (Jeremy Jordan) controls the information flow and is in no hurry. The estranged parents circle each other across the same long night — their different experiences of raising a Black son in America doing most of the talking. Eugene Lee rounds out the small cast.
Four actors, one room, ninety minutes. Deliberately confined, deliberately uncomfortable. Stream American Son (2019) online on iFILM.
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