Plainclothes – November 13, 7:00PM @ Cinestudio

Queer Thursdays Presents…

PLAINCLOTHES

Screening Thursday, November 13, 2025, 7:00 PM @ Cinestudio 

Synopsis: At his mother’s New Year’s Eve party, Lucas (Tom Blyth), 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, 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 reckoning where everything he’s buried threatens to erupt.

This 2025 Sundance Film Festival standout is set in the 1990s, but the plot rings true to today as we recently saw news of a similar undercover sting operation at Penn Station, NYC (Read story here).

Director Carmen Emmi | 2025 | USA, UK | 95 minutes | in English

Cast: Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Russell Tovey (American Horror Story, Looking), Maria Dizzia (Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, While We’re Young)

“It’s a moving story told with sensitivity and beautifully acted by the two leads.” – David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

“Lucas’ self-loathing and panic are persuasively of their time, and the story, which could as easily have been set in the 1950s, can’t help but seem a cautionary tale for the world we find ourselves in today.” – Bob Mondello, LNPR