Searchlight Pictures “The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat” will debut exclusively on Hulu August 23rd.
“The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat” follows a trio of best friends (Uzo Aduba, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Sanaa Lathan) known as “The Supremes” who, for decades, has weathered life’s storms together through marriage and children, happiness and blues.
Now, as heartbreak and illness stir up the past and threaten to destroy their friendship, Odette, Barbara Jean and Clarice see their bond put to the test as they go through their most challenging times yet.
The film is directed by Tina Mabry, and is based upon the novel by Edward Kelsey Moore, with a screenplay by Cee Marcellus and Tina Mabry.
“I’m always looking at things with honesty. It’s about telling stories about the dirt that’s under the rug. It’s about playing in that gray area because life is not just black and white.”
Mabry ultimately found the soul of the story by looking inward. She reflected upon her own relationship with her two lifelong best friends from USC film school. “I realized that over the 20 years we’ve known each other, there’s always been that sisterhood. These are the women that I would die for,” she confesses. “That friendship was something I really wanted to integrate into The Supremes. I wanted to make sure that heartbeat stayed, no matter what life threw at them, whether it was when they were 17 or when they near 50 years old. That’s the thing that has sustained my sisterhood with my own Supremes.”
“The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat” transcends socioeconomics, race, gender, and sexual orientation. “It is a very human story that shows how we all deal with relationships.” Mabry continues, “I realized when looking at these characters, whether it’s Odette who has a savior complex; or someone like Clarice, who is stuck in a box and has been completely morphed into fitting into an image; or Barbara Jean, who is a broken woman trying to find hope, but at the same time, not feeling that she deserves it – each of these women are going through all these things, and what they don’t say weighs on them.”
With the love and support of their sisterhood, each undergoes their own journey of self-discovery. “It’s a beautiful tale of friends that become family and all of the obstacles and joys and triumphs and tragedies of life that we all go through as human beings,” adds Sanaa Lathan, who plays Barbara Jean. “This threesome of strong, Black women come together to hold each other up through it all and witness each other.”
The film also stars Russell Hornsby and Mekhi Phifer, as well as Kyanna Simone, Tati Gabrielle, Abigail Achiri, Julian McMahon, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Tony Winters, Dijon Means, Xavier Mills, Cleveland Berto and Ryan Paynter.
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