Harry Styles’ highly anticipated gay love-triangle movie “The Policeman” is set to have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
On Thursday, TIFF organizers confirmed that the romantic drama starring Styles, Emma Corrin and David Dawson will screen at its 47th annual edition.
Based on Bethan Roberts’ 2012 novel of the same name, the film features Styles as Tom, a closeted police offer in 1950s Britain, a time when homosexuality was still criminalized.
Tom marries a school teacher named Marion (Corrin), while he secretly dates a museum curator named Patrick (Dawson).
The film, an Amazon Studios production, is directed by Michael Grandage (“Genius”) with a script penned by Ron Nyswaner, who received an Oscar nomination for 1993′s “Philadelphia.”
“My Policeman” is described by the studio as a “heart-stopping portrait of three people caught up in the shifting tides of history, liberty, and forgiveness.”
The story will also flash forward to the 1990s, with Tom (Linus Roache), Marion (Gina McKee), and Patrick (Rupert Everett) still reeling with longing and regret, but with one last chance to repair the damage of the past, in a “beautifully crafted story of forbidden love and changing social conventions.”
“My Policeman” is set to open in theaters on Oct. 21, and stream on Prime Video starting Nov. 4.
This year, Canada’s prestigious film festival that attracts about half a million movie lovers every year is back to an in-person-focused event, and it will run from Sept. 8 to 18.
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