Runs in the Family
- Director: Ian Gabriel
- Writer: Gabe Gabriel
- Producer: Ben Amadasun, Cindy Gabriel, Refiloe Hlabioa, Shant Joshi, Yolanda Ncokotwane, Laura Sampson, Amina Thornton
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When modest tailor and single Indian dad, Varun (Ace Bhatti), is called to break his long-lost white ex-girlfriend, Monica (Diaan Lawrenson), out of a rehab clinic across the country, he and their transgender son, River (Gabe Gabriel), take a road trip across South Africa to rescue her. Varun tells stories of his adventurous past with Monica as he and River jump the border fence and hitchhike in eSwatini with a kind and fiery stranger, Shaunice (Loren Loubser). Finally, they reach the rehab clinic where the receptionist, Hloni (Faniswa Yisa) takes some convincing before finally releasing Monica to the father-son duo.
Tensions are high as the dysfunctional new family unit adjusts on their way back home where River is set to compete with his best friend, Ollie (Cleo Wesley), in a once-in-a-lifetime drag competition that could win him his long-awaited gender-affirming surgery, so long as no con artists from Varun and Monica’s wild past with their old friend and mafia man Stan (Rob van Vuuren) get in their way.
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Cast & Characters
Ace Bhatti (as Varun Chetty)
Rob van Vuuren (as Stan Russo)
Gabe Gabriel (as River Storm)
Paul Snodgrass (as Anthony)
Khadija Heeger (as Lucille)
Diaan Lawrenson (as Monica Storm)
Mamello Makhetha (as Photographer)
Kathleen Stephens (as Christine)
Loren Loubser (as Shaunice)
Faniswa Yisa (as Hloni)
Tankiso Mamabolo (as Cashier)
Manila Von Teez (as Manila Von Teez)
Earl Gregory (as Her Vagesty The Queen)
Cleo Wesley (as Ollie)