Looking<\/strong>“), director Carmen Emmi\u2019s 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).<\/p>\nAt his mother\u2019s New Year\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s Eve reckoning where everything he\u2019s buried threatens to erupt.<\/p>\n
The film originally debuted at this year\u2019s Sundance, where it won the U.S Dramatic special Jury award for Ensemble Cast. Besides Blyth and Tovey, the film <\/i>also stars Amy Forsyth, Christian Cooke, Maria Dizzia, and Gabe Fazio. It will release in theaters on September 19, 2025.<\/p>\n
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