Magnolia Pictures has shared a poster and trailer for writer-director Carmen Emmi’s Sundance award-winning 1990s-set thriller Plainclothes.
Tom Blyth stars as Lucas, a young police officer assigned with the undercover task of luring and arresting gay men in public bathrooms, who finds himself torn between duty and desire when he falls in love with his target Andrew (Russell Tovey).
Joining Blyth and Tovey in the cast are Amy Forsyth, Christian Cooke, Maria Dizzia, and Gabe Fazio; watch the trailer below…
Set in 1990s Syracuse and featuring breakout performances from stars Tom Blyth (HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES) and Russell Tovey (LOOKING), director Carmen Emmi’s Sundance award-winning thriller follows a promising undercover officer (Blyth) assigned to lure and arrest gay men who defies orders when he falls in love with a target (Tovey).
At his mother’s New Year’s Eve party Lucas, a young police officer, loses a letter no one was ever meant to read. 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, 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.
SEE ALSO: Read our review of Plainclothes
Plainclothes arrives in cinemas on September 19th.
