Amazon’s Troop Zero stars Viola Davis as a troop leader of a bunch of misfit girls and Allison Janney as the uptight leader of a rival troop of girls.
Troop Zero wowed audiences at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where critics praised both the empowering and inspiring message for young women and the performance of perennial icon Viola Davis.
Amazon Studios then quickly scooped up Troop Zero, and after seeing the first trailer, it’s not hard to see why.
The indie dramedy has quite a pedigree of talent, both in front of and behind the camera. Of course, in front of the camera there are powerhouse and Oscar-winning actresses Viola Davis and Allison Janney as rival troop leaders, as well as the talented Jim Gaffigan and Mike Epps. Behind the camera, Troop Zero is directed by rising directorial duo Bert & Bertie, with a script written by Beasts of the Southern Wild scribe Lucy Alibar.
Check out the trailer below!
In a tiny Georgia town in 1977, a motherless girl dreams of a life beyond the confines of her trailer-park home in Troop Zero. When her quest for connection leads her to reach for the stars in a competition to be included on NASA’s landmark Golden Record, it becomes clear she will have to depend on some new friends to take her the last mile.
Every night, Christmas Flint (Mckenna Grace) sits under a starry sky with a flashlight, signaling to extraterrestrial visitors that never arrive. Sensitive, imaginative and deeply lonely, Christmas and her equally eccentric best friend Joseph are the ultimate misfits in their rural hometown of Wiggly, Georgia. When Christmas learns that the winners of the annual Birdie Scout Jamboree talent contest will be included on a recording to be sent into space for posterity, her mission in life becomes to join the Scouts and win Jamboree.
When she is blackballed by the snobbish local Birdie Scout troop and their uptight leader Miss Massey (Allison Janney), Christmas rallies a group of elementary-school outliers to start their own chapter. With grudging help from her dad’s irascible office manager, Miss Rayleen (Viola Davis), Christmas and her crew have to bypass every roadblock Miss Massey can find in the fine print of the Birdie bylaws in order to reach the Jamboree and their chance at immortality.
Troop Zero arrives on Amazon Prime Video on January 17, 2020.
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