Samuel Goldwyn Acquires Family Film ‘Dakota’ Starring Abbie Cornish, Lola Sultan & More For April Release
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment’s family film Dakota, starring Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Lola Sultan (Netflix’s Yes Day), William Baldwin (Backdraft), Patrick Muldoon (The Comeback Trail) and Tim Rozon (Surreal Estate), for release in limited theaters beginning April 1, with a platformed theatrical rollout to follow.In the action-adventure pic, recently widowed single mom Kate Sanders (Cornish) lives on her family’s farm in Georgia with her daughter Alex (Sultan).
Life on the farm is a challenge and things only get more complicated when the combat dog Dakota, delivered by Sergeant CJ Malcolm (Rozon), arrives on their doorstep.
CJ is fulling a promise made to Kate’s late husband, his friend and fellow Afghanistan veteran Marine Clay Sanders, to bring Dakota home to them, upon his death.Kate spends her time between the farm and running the volunteer fire department, with Dakota watching over the family, becoming a local hero helping out around town, and finding a special bond with Alex’s grandfather (Baldwin).
Meanwhile, the local Sheriff (Muldoon) knows an old, long-since-buried secret that the Sanders’ farm is valuable, and has been leaning on Kate to sell.
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