Kelly Halligan has moved with her 17-year-old niece from New York to California to start her new business venture. When her niece tries out for the soccer team, the two meet the athletic and handsome new coach, Dominic. They also become acquainted with the attractive, but somewhat unstable, student Maddie who is also on the girl's high school soccer team. While Kelly and Dominic develop a romance, Dominic becomes the unwanted center of attention for Maddie, who becomes obsessed with her new coach and proceeds to sabotage his life and Kelly's after he refuses her sexual advances.
David DeCoteau
Director
Jessica Morris
Kelly Halligan
Vivica A. Fox
Detective Gibson
Jason-Shane Scott
Dominic
Evanne Friedmann
Maddie
William McNamara
Detective Andrade
Kennedy Tucker
Amber
Ryan Moore
Riley
Helene Udy
Coach Hendricks
Galyn Görg
Detective Mauro
Sophia Katarina
Lisa (as Sophia Katarina Kraak)
Renton Pexa
Kyle
The film's Incluvie rating is off the charts. It features Black, Muslim, queer, trans humans whose moms hold them up, fight for them, and love them for who they are...making anything possible.
Not every film can make a shopping mall feel both magical and menacing, but Forbidden Fruits challenges that.
I can say without question, that this is the first movie I’ve ever seen where art imitates life so much that I could 100% identify with it on a personal level. The predominately Black cast of characters are people with hopes, dreams, fears, and ambitions.
Suppressed intergenerational family trauma and healing, warm welcome to the Marvel Cinematic Universe team, and Awkwafina's humor really make this film the real MVP.
It’s fun, it’s energetic, but it’s also understated and vicarial. Zola is a modern black fairytale and future of black movies.