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Plainclothes

Country: United States, Language: English, 92 mins

  • Director: Carmen Emmi
  • Writer: Carmen Emmi
  • Producer: Colby Cote, April Kelley, Arthur Landon, Vanessa Pantley, Eric Podwall, Alexander Wenger

CGiii Comment

A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies orders when he falls in love with a target.

Plainclothes is brimming with an atmosphere of paranoia and anxiety. As Lucas, a young police officer contending with a secret attraction to men, Tom Blyth palpably embodies this tension in a breakout performance. Straining to fill a prescribed role in the implicitly straight culture of the police force, he carries the crushing weight of both the consequences of his increasingly fraught undercover work as well as the threat of exposure of his exhilarating, clandestine encounters with Andrew (Russell Tovey). Writer-director Carmen Emmi, making his feature directorial debut, cleverly deploys lo-fi VHS footage at key moments to ramp up the sense of unease, alternately signifying the police surveillance that haunts his conscience as well as flashes of memory. A shrewd play with chronology similarly keeps the audience on its toes, wondering if Lucas will be able to handle the stress of his secret or if he’ll finally reach a breaking point.—Basil Tsiokos


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Cast & Characters

Tom Blyth
Russell Tovey
Maria Dizzia
Christian Cooke
Gabe Fazio
Amy Forsyth