THE SILHOUETTES

(HISTORICAL DRAMA, CRIME, COMEDY)

Rated R

A “Steel Magnolias” in Brooklyn

Logline:

Four working-class Black women tell the story of a determined, resourceful club they formed twenty-five years earlier in the heat of the Civil Rights Movement. Culture, Ambition, Love & Marriage and Children- these are the phases that saw them stage plays, gain careers, survive the travails of marriage, and prepare them for what became the crack epidemic

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Synopsis:
When the new mothers met on a park bench, who knew that ten years later a nationally televised Board of Education strike would pit them against their Jewish neighbors? But Claire Davenport has an answer for the growing tension: she stages the whole thing as a ’60’s Romeo & Juliet, using the kids.

But by then, ambition had taken over and many of the club members fled the projects along with the whites. As some went back to school, their marriages strained. In fact, Nancy Early, the most ruthless of them all, not only spots one club member with another’s husband, she notices her own talented daughters’ decline.

But when Carmen Toole’s son, Marcus, the play’s Romeo, goes missing, the fact that he’s a drug addict drowns out all illusions- including her marriage. Worse, the girls are shocked when another member’s son reveals a secret that might find Marcus dead.

What happens next rekindles their friendship and drives the girls to new heights.