A friend of mine made this film, and it is being released in 1 theater in New York as a trial run to see how popular it is. If it does well, it'll expand to other cities. I just wanted to post here to let people know that this movie exists, and it opens April 1st. It will be playing at The Quad Cinema.

http://www.girlplaymovie.com

I haven't seen it, but she told me that it's been playing at a lot of Film Festivals over the past few months to a very positive reception. Here's the plot synopsis from the website:

Girl Play is the painfully funny love story raising the complicated question, “What do you do when true love comes and you’re already in “the relationship?” Based on the lives of writers / actors Robin Greenspan and Lacie Harmon, the story begins as Robin, who is essentially married to her girlfriend of a half dozen years and, Lacie, who has never had a relationship lasting past sunrise, are cast to play lesbian lovers in a Los Angeles stage play.

Innocently, the flamboyant stage director, Gabriel (Dom Deluise) directs the actresses through a series of rehearsals designed to “ensure intimacy in performance.” But soon the two women find themselves increasingly and undeniably attracted to each other until finally they are overcome with desire. They must ask themselves whether this relationship is manufactured, created for the sake of the “girl play” or, a “true love” requiring major personal choices and life altering changes.

In an attempt to come to terms with these irresistible feelings for each other, the two women tell their stories; flashing back to key moments in their lives, including: Young Robin realizing secrets are a necessary part of life, Adult Robin coming out of the closet to her mother (Mink Stole) after one last lunch of hearing about all of her unreasonable expectations of a pending marriage to the perfect son in law to be and Lacie’s trials and errors in the dating world along with her ultimate inability to perform sexually with a girlfriend once the initial honeymoon timeframe has run out. All of these flashbacks are intertwined with special moments of hot, lusting desire for one another during the rehearsals for the play for which they were cast as each other’s lovers.

Girl Play incorporates elements of stage and film, moving back and forth through time and places to explore through humor and sometimes-painful self-confession, the neuroses that accompany major life choices.

Well i hope the film does really well! indie films rock!

i aint indian

I'll see yours if you see mine.

what kinda film ????

my badddd didnt pay attention!!

another thing, im in Australia i think ill be a tad late! instead send us over a copy??? hehehe :P

Good. God.

The man has been pimping his movie relentlessly for months now. You honestly don't know?

WOG's screen name says he just registered, so i'm guessing not.

Bump...The movie opens today in New York City.

Mink Stole rules !

how was the response opening day?

Good question. I"m in LA, but she went to New York so she could be at the theater all weekend and see the business the movie was doing firsthand. She told me that if the movie doesn't do well, it'll basically just die right there at that theater and not expand any more, and just go on to DVD.

I'll post here when I find out how opening night/weekend was.

who is the distributor?

Not sure who is releasing the movie...

Just to update...This past weekend, the movie opened with $8,441 in the 1 theater it was playing in.

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/girlplay#critics

Looks like it's going straight to video.

I met the producers. Nice people. One of them owes me a cigar though.

If it's going straight to video, how is it playing in a theater right now...

Usually straight to video means bypassing theaters completely.

The film was very low budget, so it's not impossible to recoup costs.