September 8, 2022
Watch: Trailer Drops for Harry Styles Gay Drama 'My Policeman'
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 1 MIN.
With anticipation around "Don't Worry Darling" at a fever pitch, another Harry Styles movie – "My Policeman," due in theaters next month – has gotten its official trailer.
Released Sept. 7, the official trailer for "My Policeman" is set to a languorous version of "Sea of Love," as the film's basic plot plays out in lush period imagery. Styles plays a closeted gay policeman in midcentury London.
"Based on the book of the same name by author Bethan Roberts, 'My Policeman' is set in 1957 Brighton," Entertainment Weekly reported earlier this summer. "Styles plays Tom, who's gay but starts dating a schoolteacher, Marion ('The Crown's' Emma Corrin)," only to then fall for a museum curator named Patrick (David Dawson).
The film is also partially set 40 years later. For these scenes, the three characters are played by Linus Roache, Gina McKee, and Rupert Everett. All three characters wrestle in their later lives with repercussions from Tom's closeted younger years, when Tom was driven by the paradox of being an officer of the law at a time when being gay was illegal in Britain.
"It's a powerful story of forbidden love, regret, and living as your true self," Vanity Fair noted in its own report.
The new trailer follows the film's first official images, released in June, and a teaser, which also dropped in June.
Out screenwriter Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") wrote the screenplay, based on the 2012 novel by Bethan Roberts. Michael Grandage directs. The film will be in theaters on Oct. 21, before moving to Amazon Prime on Nov. 4.
Watch the trailer below.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
