Andrea Riseborough, Demi Moore, Harry Melling, and Karl Glusman star in Please Baby Please, the queer thriller set in 1950s Manhattan.
In the film, which premiered at the 2022 International Film Festival Rotterdam, a newlywed couple witnesses a murder and becomes involves with a greaser gang known as the Young Gents, leading them to question their sexual identity.
Also starring in the film are Mary Lynn Rajskub, Ryan Simpkins, Jaz Sinclair, Dana Ashbrook, Cole Escola, Jake Choi, Marquis Rodriguez, Matt D’Elia, Karim Saleh, Yedoye Travis, Alisa Torres, Jake Sydney Cohen, Brendan O’Meara, and Dalton Weaver.
Directed by Amanda Kramer, Please Baby Please will be released in theaters on October 28th, 2022.
Suze (Andrea Riseborough) and Arthur (Harry Melling) live an outwardly traditional lifestyle as the Lower East Side’s most bohemian Eisenhower-era couple. The pair’s cage is rattled when they encounter a gang of sadistic, leather-clad greasers known as The Young Gents. Suze and Arthur’s initial thrust of fear evolves into confusion of thrill and lust. This sudden exposure to flamboyant masculinity unlocks the realization that Suze is an aspiring leather daddy who mistook herself for a housewife. Meanwhile, the perpetually sensitive Arthur’s obsessive gender trouble goes sideways when Young Gent Teddy (Karl Glusman) sparks a queer desire.
Please Baby Please presents a full spectrum of underground fetishism and seductive musical asides featuring alluring cameos by Demi Moore and Cole Escola. Visionary filmmaker Amanda Kramer pegs the hetero hellscape of the 1950s in a witty, syncopated riff that plays like a high camp emission from your wildest dreams – bathed in silk, sweat, and bisexual lighting.
Watch the official trailer for Please Baby Please.
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