Straight Up

Straight Up (2020)

He might be gay. She might not care.

Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex.

Date of release
2020-02-28
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (87)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
James Sweeney

Casting

Interesting facts

Straight Up is a 2019 independent film written, produced, and directed by James Sweeney. Sweeney stars in the film with Katie Findlay, Dana Drori, James Scully, Tracie Thoms, Betsy Brandt, and Randall Park. The film premiered July 23, 2019 at Outfest, with limited distribution by Strand Releasing beginning February 28, 2020.

Production

Straight Up was partly funded through a crowdfunding campaign on Seed&Spark which raised $23,340 for production. Sweeney based the film on his proof of concept short Normal Doors which was created for Fox Digital Studios.

In an interview with The Desert Sun, Sweeney said:If you think it’s not a love story, maybe the film should challenge what the idea of love is. Even the idea of romantic love, because there’s more than one type of love, but specifically the idea of romantic love is a relatively modern concept and especially the western notion of what that love is, is part of what inspired the concept of the film.

Principal photography took place over 18 days in 20 different locations with two additional days of pick up. The film was shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio. On the aspect ratio, Sweeney said "in a lot of ways Todd and Rory are living in a box, and you could argue that some of their relationship is taken out of a 1930s Hays Code–era movie plot, which is when that ratio was standard.

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