Love Hurts } THE CLOSETED Banker (Trailer)
BY: CHRISTOPHER DONALDSON
For a romantic comedy about a closeted investment banker, “The One” doesn’t seem so nearly interested in those certain little heartfelt pleasures usually dedicated to the genre. Where’s the romance? Where’s the promise of an implausible life lived happily-ever-after?
Directed and written by Caytha Jentis, the film spins an entire roulette wheel of melodramatic schemes around a handsome, wealthy, but closeted banker named Daniel (Jon Prescott) who--despite tenuous urges to engage in secret-sex with men--is still set to marry Jen, a perky litigator played by Margaret Anne Florence.
In any case, when Daniel’s not trying to force his “straight, jock, virgin“ identity onto everyone around him, he enjoys reading Dostoyevsky in a local bar, where he meets openly gay Tommy (Ian Novick), a former college classmate. Here, much unlike the typical romantic comedy, the sound of love is barely audible.
But after a few drinks and even fewer attempts at complexity later on (one of them involving a sexually charged game of lacrosse), the blossoms of something much bigger than traditional marriage start to force their way, with time, through Daniel’s path of most resistance--despite his close proximity to good bone structure, finely tuned hair and abs, and white teeth.
Sold out for its world premiere at both the Frameline35 and 2011 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay film festival, “The One” is now available on VOD/DVD. Watch the trailer below. For more information about "The One," visit: www..tlavideo.com/
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