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BEGIN SLIDESHOW How Ike Barinholtz used The Oath to capture lightning in a bottle At the beginning of Ike Barinhotz’s The Oath, a controversial White House policy turns family member against family member, which culminates over Thanksgiving dinner as it examines our modern era of political tribalism. When Chris (Ike Barinholtz), a high-strung, progressive news junkie, and his more level-headed wife Kai (Tiffany Haddish) learn that citizens are being asked to sign a loyalty oath to the President, their reaction is disbelief, followed by an idealistic refusal. As the Thanksgiving deadline to sign approaches, the combination of sparring relatives, Chris’s own agitation and the unexpected arrival of two government agents send an already tense holiday dinner gathering completely off the rails.