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Tom Blyth is an undercover cop with a secret of his own in tense Plainclothes trailer
Tom Blyth—breakout star from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes—found his latest role in a particularly painful period of our own society's history. Blyth leads Carmen Emmi's Plainclothes as Lucas, an undercover officer assigned to seduce and subsequently arrest gay men in 1990s Syracuse. For Lucas, this isn't an easy task. 'You can always tell when a man is hiding something,' an uncle played by Gabe Fazio tells him midway through the trailer. Lucas does have a secret, and it's one that threatens a lot more than his livelihood. 'At his mother's New Year's Eve party Lucas, a young police officer, loses a letter no one was ever meant to read,' the film's logline reads. 'Amid the backdrop of the suffocating family party, the search for the letter unlocks memories of a past he's tried to forget: months earlier, while working undercover in a mall bathroom, Lucas arrested men by seducing them. But when he encounters Andrew (Russell Tovey), everything changes. What begins as another setup becomes something far more electric and intimate. As their secret connection deepens and police pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, Lucas finds himself torn between duty and desire. With time running out and his past closing in, Plainclothes builds toward a New Year's Eve reckoning where everything he's buried threatens to erupt.' 'Erupt' is a fitting word to describe this trailer. The tone is incredibly tense, as images from Lucas' past and present flash over a taut and anxiety-provoking score. Emmi certainly isn't romanticizing the history he's portraying, despite the against-all-odds love story at its core. Still, the film does promise to offer some catharsis by its end. 'I want to leave the audience with a feeling of hope,' Emmi told Deadline ahead of Plainclothes' Sundance premiere. 'So many times, these stories, I feel like end in tragedy. And from the beginning, that was exactly what I didn't want to do… I wanted our production to be a symbol of hope for maybe someone who was struggling with not even their sexuality, but any secret that they had. That was the goal for me.' Plainclothes premieres in theaters September 19. More from A.V. Club America weaponizes children, and Weapons follows suit R.I.P. Bobby Whitlock, co-founder of Derek And The Dominos Donald Trump seeks control over D.C.'s museums now, too Solve the daily Crossword
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19-06-2025
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Plainclothes Wins Best Narrative Feature at Provincetown International Film Festival
Plainclothes, the debut feature from director Carmen Emmi, won the Provincetown International Film Festival Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 27th annual PIFF this past weekend. The Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature went to Come See Me in the Good Light, directed by Ryan White. The festival, held in the arts and LGBTQ+ mecca of Provincetown, Massachusetts, hosted a robust and boundary-pushing slate of top-notch films, including James Sweeney's Twinless and Annapurna Sriram's Fucktoys. Highlights included a Q&A between Ari Aster and John Waters, the patron saint of the festival, as Waters presented Aster the Filmmaker on the Edge Award. Murray Bartlett was presented with the Excellence in Acting Award by iconic producer Christine Vachon. Eva Victor, director of Sorry Baby, and River Gallo, director of Ponyboi, both received the Next Wave Award. Additional guests include Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke, whose delightful Honey Don't received a very warm reception, as well as Sweeney and Dylan O'Brien, who co-star in the twisty, fascinating Twinless. Other guests included Linus O'Brien, whose lovely Rocky Horror Picture Show documentary Strange Journey opened the festival, as well as Brandon Flynn, François Arnaud, Michael Koehler, Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, Aud Mason-Hyde, Carmen Emmi, Ryan White, Michael Strassner, Yashaddai Owens, Alexi Wasser, Kahane Corn Cooperman, Zackary Drucker, Allison Argo, Elegance Bratton, John Cooper, and Sundance Film Festival director Eugene Hernandez. The festival closed with Michael Koehler's Spiritus: No Business Like Dough Business, about a pizzeria and cafe that is one of PTown's most beloved and enduring businesses. Plainclothes, shot in Emmi's hometown of Syracuse, New York, is the story of a cop who is assigned to bust gay men for having sex in public places — but ends up falling for one of his targets. Come See Me in the Good Light is the story of two poet lovers who embark on an exploraton of love and morality — with unexpected humor — after a terminal diagnosis. The John Schlesinger Awards, presented to a first-time narrative and documentary feature filmmaker, went to Sarah Friedland for the narrative Familiar Touch and Brittany Shyne for the documentary Seeds. The winers of the Juried Short Awards were "Dragfox," directed by Lisa Ott, for best animated short; "Signs From the Mainland," by Michael Cestaro, for Best New England Short; "Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites," by Chheangkea, for Best Queer Short; "Susana," directed by Gerardo Coello Escalante and Amandine Thomas, for Best Narrative Short; and "We'll Carry On Alright," directed by Megan Rossman, for Best Documentary Short. "Yú Cì (Fish Bones)," by Kevin X. Yu, and "Tiger," by Loren Waters, received special jury mentions. (MovieMaker's house style is to italicize feature titles and put short film titles in quotes. ) Main image: Russell Tovey and Tom Blyth in Plainclothes, directed by Carmen Emmi. Related Headlines 5 Ugly Abraham Lincoln Facts No One Likes to Talk About 12 Sleazy '70s Movies That Don't Care About Your Respect 12 Fathers Day Movies About Dads Saving Daughters
