When their father passes away, four
grown siblings return to their childhood home after five years with their
collection of spouses, children, grandchildren, soon to be exes and soon to be
spouses.
This is the story of 3 Days to Go, a South African movie written and
directed by Bianca Isaac. The cast features Leeanda Reddy; Lillette Dubey; Jailoshini
Naidoo; Kajal Bagwandeen; Rahul Brijnath; Jonathan Boynton-Lee; Zakeeya Patel; Ashish
Gangerpersad; Pranesh Maharaj; Rueben Naidoo and Kiara Govender.
Lakshmi (Lillette Dubey) and Gabriel Isaac
(Rueben Naidoo) have been happily married for almost 45 years. While out cake
tasting, in preparations for their 45th anniversary party, Gabriel
has an unexpected heart attack and dies forcing all the children to come home
earlier than they planned. Three of their four children haven’t been home in
five years. The only child they see is Janet Isaac (Leeanda Reddy), their second-born
who lives with them. After losing her husband in a tragic accident, she moved
back home and has been the only child taking care of her parents together with
her teenage daughter Kiara (Kiara Govender), who has decided now is the perfect
time to start acting out. Janet finally found love again with Oliver (Jonathan
Boynton-Lee) but somehow is struggling to move forward; and now she has to
juggle her insane siblings coming home for the funeral.
Melissa Isaac, (Jailoshini Naidoo) their first-born, married someone who
she thought was the man of her dreams until he turned emotionally abusive… and
it didn’t take long before it turned physical. She tried to get out but like
most abusive relationships, she never did. Their only daughter, Candice (Zakeeya
Patel) grew up in this madness becoming a young single mother of two children
and is now looking for love in the wrong places – leaving Melissa to play mother
to her two children.
Riki Isaac (Rahul Brijnath), third child and only son, and like most sons – he
is the apple of his mother’s eye. His financial success leads to excessive
drinking, a divorce, gambling and debt and always hustling. His latest gambling
binge, the day his father died – has him owing a colourful loan shark Babes
(Tumi Morake) R100,000; and now he needs to come up with the money fast. Riki’s
first target, is his father’s inheritance.
We all have that person in our families
who can’t stop talking about themselves – that would be Amy, the last-born, who
ran off at a young age and married a man 10 years older than her. Love turned
into luxury and now he wants out of their relationship. Faced with losing
everything in the divorce and potentially having to move back home, Amy wants
to have a baby to secure her future.
While the parents are dealing with
their own issues, Kiara (Kiara Govender) is left with an impressionable Candice
(Zakeeya Patel); and together they find themselves in trouble.
This crazy family needs to survive
each other under one roof for three days, before they spread their father’s
ashes and part ways again. They learn how miserable they have become in their
lives and how they can no longer blame each other or people for their choices
and decisions.
3 Days To Go represents
every family across the globe and across every race. Everyone knows someone or
has someone like one of these characters in their own families. But every now
and then something happens that tears us apart in order to bring us back
together. When this happens, we realize that no matter how crazy and selfish
our family can be, we can still love them, show them their faults and stand by
them so they can change their ways and grow stronger together as a family.
#familyfirst
The film
is produced by Gregory Mthanji. Director of Photography is Jonathan De La
Querra with music composed by Benjamin Willem.
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