Double Play (film)
Double Play is a 2017 American drama film directed by Ernest Dickerson, based on Curaçaoan author Frank Martinus Arion's Dutch-language novel Dubbelspel.Ostrik, now a grown man working as a doctor in the Netherlands, returns to his childhood home on the island of Curaçao and recalls his experiences with his family and neighbors there during a time of colonial unrest in the 1970s.Each Sunday his father Bubu would play dominoes with his friends while discussing a variety of issues as Ostrik would observe.That Sunday the union meeting for the election is scheduled to be held at his house but the drivers witness Bubu experiencing a day-long losing streak at dominoes and they begin to lose confidence in him until he gives a rousing speech about revolution.The film is adapted from Curaçaoan author Frank Martinus Arion's Dutch-language novel Dubbelspel.