The Pill
Dir. Franco Clarke
81 mins., 2021, USA

FRIDAY, 2/11 - 10PM
SATURDAY, 2/12 - 7:30PM WITH Q&A! (this event is $10)
FRIDAY, 2/18 - 10PM
SUNDAY, 2/27 - 5PM WITH Q&A! (this event is $10)

Filmmaker Franco Clarke’s feature debut The Pill premiered at the 2021 Indie Memphis Film Festival, where it nabbed a much-deserved award for Best Narrative Screenplay. Now Spectacle is excited to bring Clarke’s darkly comedic, deeply poignant dystopian family sci-fi to New York!

Clarke’s family portrait follows the Brooklyn-based Burdens - father Stanley, mother Monica, and their son Jeremy - as they navigate their respective day-to-days of a corporate boardroom, culinary academy, and a tony private school. As the only black executive at his job, Stanley is on the verge of a mental breakdown. That is, until he gets ahold of “The Pill”, a mind-altering drug that shields him from racism throughout the day with an eight-hour dose of soothing R&B. When Stanley offers Jeremy a supply of his own, the family’s tenuous bubble is thrown into turmoil.

Spectacle is thrilled to present the NYC theatrical premiere of THE PILL.