Kara Young stars as Racine and Mallori Johnson as Anaia in IS GOD IS, from Amazon MGM Studios.
Lauded playwright Aleshea Harris is making her directorial debut with Is God Is, a Southern Gothic, Afropunk-style thriller and silver-screen adaptation of her award-winning play, set to launch on May 15th. In Is God Is, two sisters embark on an epic quest for revenge, confronting a charged family history and generational trauma that will push them to extraordinary lengths. Produced by Tessa Thompson, the film also features a star-studded cast, including Kara Young, Mallori Johnson, Janelle Monáe, Erika Alexander, Mykelti Williamson, Josiah Cross, and Vivica A. Fox and Sterling K. Brown.
The thriller is set in the Deep South and rife with biblical allegory, aptly displayed within the title, ‘God’ is in this film is a woman, named Ruby (Vivica A. Fox), who is severely burned due to a fire created at the hands of her ex-husband (Sterling K. Brown). Her children, twins, Anaia and Racine (Mallori Johnson and Kara Young), were also left with permanent burn marks in different places on their bodies.
After the incident, the twins were put into foster care, and never heard from their mother again or knew why they had the burns on their bodies – until one day, they received a letter with a request for them to visit her in the South. While seeing their mother on her deathbed, the twins listened to Ruby share what happened that caused the fire, all about their father’s new families and wives, and demanded them to seek revenge for them all, by making their “daddy dead — real dead,” which serves as the film’s tagline, and plot, as the twin accepts their mother’s challenge and decides to hunt their dad for revenge.
