PREDATORS
David Osit
2025 / 1H36M / MTV DOCUMENTARY FILMS / ENGLISH
Set in 1990s Syracuse and featuring breakout performances from stars Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) and Russell Tovey (Looking), Plainclothes follows a promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men who defies orders when he falls in love with a target.
At his mother’s New Year’s Eve party, Lucas, a young police officer, loses a letter no one was ever meant to read. Amid the backdrop of the suffocating family party, the search for the letter unlocks memories of a past he’s tried to forget: months earlier, while working undercover in a mall bathroom, Lucas arrested men by seducing them. But when he encounters Andrew, everything changes. What begins as another setup becomes something far more electric and intimate. As their secret connection deepens and police pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, Lucas finds himself torn between duty and desire. With time running out and his past closing in, Plainclothes builds toward a New Year’s Eve reckoning where everything he’s buried threatens to erupt.
PRAISE FOR PREDATORS
“Osit’s brilliant, subtly needling film leaves us unnerved and alert, but not certain of our convictions — an outcome, perhaps, that more true-crime programming should pursue.” – Guy Lodge, Variety
“As David Osit’s probing, troubling documentary Predators demonstrates, the sociological implications of the show were (and are) anything but simple, beginning with what the series’ popularity suggests about the viewers who watched it.” – Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Times
“In forcing a viewer’s roiling, complex feelings inward, Predators is also asking audiences to sit with cruelty, and ponder how contributive, even in a small way, they might have been — as well as just how deep their own personal reservoir of compassion might be.” – Brent Simon, The A.V. Club
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