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JACK & GILLIAN
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SYNOPSIS:
Jack Small is having a very bad day. In the space of 24 hours, the best work of his professional life is ruined; he accidentally discovers that his best friend, Terry, is a heterosexual cross-dresser; he's finagled into visiting a notorious pansexual bar called the "Razor's Edge," where he drinks too much with an out-of-towner named Gillian (beautiful, transvestite, and heterosexual) and learns something about the infinite varieties of sexual experience; ends up spending the night (chastely)
with Gillian at the seedy "Lights Out" motel on La Brea; and, last but not least, becomes the prime suspect in Gillian's murder.
Jack has most of the American dream in his pocket. He's married, has a house, a good job as a copywriter at a Los Angeles ad agency, and a lot of consumer goods. Unfortunately, his wife despises his weakness, he hates his job, he's afraid of his shadow, and the material stuff doesn't mean much. In short, Jack is in full crisis mode, and, just when he thinks things can't get worse, his life starts to unravel.
Under suspicion as Gillian's murderer, Jack is forced to hide in drag -- about which Terry knows plenty. Understandably reluctant at first, Jack finds that, when he adopts Gillian's identity and dress, he becomes the strong, self-assured person he's always wanted to be. Clothes -- in Jack's case, female -- quite literally make the man.
The new Jack/Gillian decides to hide in plain sight by taking his old copywriting job at the ad agency. There he's outrageously courted by men and women alike (just about everybody at the agency indulges in some sexual peccadillo), finds the love of his life in Nancy, the boss's psychic, visionary secretary, becomes the creative star of the company, and finds the courage to discover and face down the real killer -- with Nancy's psychic help.
DIRECTOR'S VISION
Award winning director and world-renowned video artist Natasa Prosenc is embarking on her second feature film, a stylized, dark, cross-dressing comedy about murder and love "Jack & Gillian". The story is pushing the limits of gender categories along the lines of classics like "Some Like it Hot" or "Tootsie", but with murky atmosphere of "Mulhollad Drive" and flamboyance of "Priscilla, the Queen of the Desert."
Much of this gender-bender flair is in the air right now from "TransAmerica", "Brokeback Mountain", a real transvestite being cast in "Dirty Sexy Money", gay undertones of "Blades of Glory", etc. So the story has commercial appeal but also a deeper message about the importance of personal growth.
"Jack & Gillian" is a somewhat surreal rollercoaster, a curious romp of narcissism and reflections of ego turned positive. Elaborate, hip clothes against cold backgrounds of contemporary modernistic architecture will create a special look for the story where present-day alienation disintegrates and gives room to love, compassion and friendship.
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