You can’t say a word to your targets, relying on eye contact to convince them that your intentions are sexual. You can’t actually step into a bathroom stall, and have to goad them into unzipping while ...

But back in the ’90s, when “Plainclothes” takes place ... where his job is to catch the eye of an interested stranger, follow him to the bathroom and then bust the “pervert” once ...

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 ...

An exchange of eye contact, a nod of the head or a faint ... The undercover work depicted in Plainclothes seems not so different from the homophobic witch-hunts of more than half a century ago.

Written and Directed by Carmen Emmi. Starring Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Amy Forsyth, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, John Bedford Lloyd, Alessandra Ford Balazs, and Sam Asa Brownstein.

A movie all too palpably real for those of us who can remember years of shame, fear and secrecy, Plainclothes follows ... An exchange of eye contact, a nod of the head or a faint smile are enough ...