Trailer Time: Love Is Strange

Here's the thing, this trailer isn't great. It's okay, but it makes it obvious that this film wants to pull on your heartstrings. That's all fine and dandy, but audiences have grown weary of that formula so it could turn against them especially when it's so obvious in the trailer. Still, the cast is interesting but we'll have to see who they are together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY4fkcbSfKg&feature=youtu.be

After nearly four decades together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan.  But when George loses his job soon after, the couple must sell their apartment and - victims of the relentless New York City real estate market - temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home.  While George moves in with two cops (Cheyenne Jackson and Manny Perez) who live down stairs, Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew (Darren Burrows), his wife (Marisa Tomei), and their temperamental teenage son (Charlie Tahan), with whom Ben shares a bedroom.  While struggling with the pain of separation, Ben and George are further challenged by the intergenerational tensions and capricious family dynamics of their new living arrangements.

Directed by Ira Sachs (KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, FORTY SHADES OF BLUE), LOVE IS STRANGE blends the romance of New York City's streets and skyline with a delicate Chopin piano score to poignantly capture both the lightness and sorrows of this modern day love story.

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