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, this New Year’s Eve becomes a reckoning where everything he’s buried threatens to erupt.
Winner of the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
Plainclothes
2025
95 min.
Fiction
USA
USA, LGBTQIA+, family drama, social pressure, love relationship, international film festivals, awarded films
Colorido
Carmen Emmi
Carmen Emmi
Ethan Palmer
Erik Vogt-Nilsen
Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, Amy Forsyth
Colby Cote, Arthur Landon, Eric Podwall, Vanessa Pantley
Magnolia Pictures, Lorton Entertainment, Page 1 Entertainment
Emily Wells
Magnolia Pictures
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