Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lucas’ painful memories become grainy home movies; his predatory police officer POV acquires a zooming, security cam-like ...

Writer-director Carmen Emmi's feature debut, Plainclothes, tells the story of an undercover cop who's assigned to lure and arrest gay men. Upon meeting a particularly irresistible target, however, the ...

As the LGBTQ community continues to face threats to their safety and rights as equal American citizens, the cast and creatives of “Plainclothes” were quick to admit that things feel “terrifying” right ...

In his feature directorial debut, Carmen Emmi directs Billy the Kid and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes star Tom Blyth. He stars in Plainclothes as Lucas alongside Russell Tovey.

In 2016, aspiring writer-director Carmen Emmi came across a Los Angeles Times article about undercover cops who would arrest gay men on charges of lewd conduct in public bathrooms — a controversial ...

"Plainclothes," about a closeted undercover cop who falls in love with a target of an anti-gay sting operation, is an electrifying period piece and haunting thriller that has strong echoes of the ...

Set and shot in his hometown of Syracuse, New York, with family members even making cameos, “Plainclothes” is clearly very personal to writer/director Carmen Emmi. It’s much more than its plot ...

Carmen Emmi convincingly evokes a lost era of cruising, focusing on the conflicted conscience of a police officer (Tom Blyth) who develops a crush on a sexy offender (Russell Tovey) he’s surveilling.

After having screened successfully at Frameline49, the new indie tense psychological thriller, “Plainclothes” played at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award ...