"This is my dream. This has been my dream since I was a kid. To get to premiere my first feature that I wrote and I directed at this festival is the biggest honor of my life."
"I think we spotted in each other a kinship in wanting to tell authentic, honest, truthful, necessary, vital stories, and the script just sings, so it was really easy for us to connect,"
"It's a queer movie, but all the themes in it are universal - Love, unrequited love, lost love, desire, passion, pleasure - It's humanity."
"This is a sort of coming of age, coming out film, but it is more than that, I think it's... Getting to a stage in your life where you feel like you're no longer willing to hide in the shadows or harbor a secret."
Carmen Emmi developed Plainclothes over almost ten years, drawing on historical 1990s undercover police stings that entrapped gay men in public restrooms and on her brother’s experience coming out while joining law enforcement. The film is a debut feature written and directed by Emmi and stars Tom Blyth as a closeted undercover cop and Russell Tovey as his next target. Plainclothes portrays cruising culture in 1990s New York and explores themes of secrecy, desire, unrequited and lost love, and the search for authenticity. The film won the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast at Sundance and opens in theaters beginning September 19.
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