The last few weeks have brought good and bad news for “Fargo” alumna Allison Tolman. Despite positive reviews, her new ABC comedy “Downward Dog” couldn’t attract a big enough audience to continue and the show was cancelled last month. On the bright side, “Barracuda,” a suspense drama she stars in, just secured U.S. distribution. Variety reports that Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films teamed up to acquire the feature, which premiered at SXSW back in March.
Directed by Julie Halperin and Jason Cortlund (“Now, Forager”), “Barracuda” sees Tolman playing a Texas-based woman whose world is rocked when a British woman claiming to be her half-sister (Sophie Reid) shows up at her door unannounced. “The duo initially bonds but the sister’s intense and erratic behavior begins to jeopardize her career aspirations, her relationship to her mother, and even her impending marriage,” Variety summarizes.
“Allison and Sophie give strong and emotional performances in ‘Barracuda,’” commented Peter Goldwyn, president of Samuel Goldwyn Films. “We are excited to be working with the filmmakers and bring their film to the largest audience possible.”
When we asked Halperin what drew her to the project, she said it was the “complex female characters.” She explained, “Their relationships are subtle and nuanced in a way that feels recognizable to me as a woman — a way that I often feel is not represented in movies.”
A theatrical release for “Barracuda,” formerly titled “La Barracuda,” is being planned for this fall with a VOD release to follow a month later.
