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Town & Country

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September 1, 2025

A con­gres­sion­al race in a trendy rur­al town upends rela­tion­ships and chal­lenges loy­al­ties amongst a group of gay sec­ond-home own­ers and a local fam­i­ly. Set against the back­drop of a divid­ed dis­trict under­go­ing a dra­mat­ic eco­nom­ic tran­si­tion, Town & Coun­try puts urban and rur­al Amer­i­ca side-by-side as it explores region­al gen­tri­fi­ca­tion, the emer­gence of gay polit­i­cal pow­er, the lin­ger­ing trau­ma of AIDS along­side the mod­ern scourge of opi­oids, and the evo­lu­tion of faith. Told from mul­ti­ple points of view, it cap­tures the free­dom and fall­out that results when peo­ple choose, or are forced, to con­front famil­ial, com­mu­nal, and polit­i­cal alle­giances. Span­ning six months from Memo­r­i­al Day to Elec­tion Day, Town & Coun­try paints a kalei­do­scop­ic por­trait of a com­mu­ni­ty and indi­vid­u­als in flux and asks the essen­tial and time­less ques­tions: What makes a home, and what do we owe our neighbors?

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