A promotional poster for the film "The Name Game" features a stylized black and white illustration of a woman's head with curly hair. The hair is decorated with various objects, including Confederate flags, a vintage man's face, a clown face, small doll figures, a manual sewing machine, a white ghost figure, and other eclectic items. Text on the poster includes the title "The Name Game" in large purple and yellow letters, the tagline "Cancel Culture on Stools" in red, and the phrase "A Bradford S. Stevens Film" in blue.
Behind-the-scenes of a video recording session at a bar, with three individuals seated at the bar and a videographer filming them, illuminated by professional lighting equipment.

“The Name Game” is based on true events and is about how an ugly battle over the company name divides two friends and ruins their friendship.

The Two friends are Nikki and Miranda and the company is the Mickey’s Monkey Theater Company located in beautiful Chicago. As the company grows and grows, some Black members have an issue with the word monkey, and it’s use as a racial slur for hundreds of years. So Miranda makes a push to change the company name, and everybody seems to be on board except for Nikki. From Nikki’s point of view the slur and the company are not one in the same thing. The slur and the reality of monkeys, apes, gorillas and their connection to human beings are not one in the same thing, so why change our name because of this stupid slur. After voicing her opinion, many people in the company agree with Nikki, but do so secretly, out of fear of being called racist, fear of offending people, fear of being canceled. Nevertheless, they thank Nikki for voicing what a lot of people were feeling but afraid to say.

But Miranda can’t believe her good friend, so she invites her out for coffee to talk about it. In a manner of minutes, the conversation gets heated, personal, and down right ugly; turning these good friends to bitter enemies.

A man wearing a green cap and white shirt operating a video camera records a woman sitting at a table in a cozy indoor setting, with another woman sitting in the background near a door.
Four women are standing in front of a mirror in a backstage dressing room, talking and smiling. The dressing room has a row of bright lights above the mirror, and a shelf with various makeup and hair products on it.

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Collage of various objects and figures on an illustrated woman's head with curly hair, including a man in a suit, Confederate flags, a clown face, a doll, and a person with a white costume. Text reads 'The NAME Game,' 'CANCEL CULTURE ON STEADS,' and 'A Bradford S. Stevens Film.'