FIRE ISLAND

Modern literary adaptions can be the stomping ground for some of the most period-defining films. ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ was reinvented with ’10 Things I Hate About You’, ‘Emma’ with ‘Clueless’, ‘Twelfth Night’ with ‘She’s the Man’, ‘Les Liaisons dangereuses’ with ‘Cruel Intentions’ - all of these took classic works of literature and modernised them. ‘Fire Island’ not only modernises Jane Austen’s classic book ‘Pride and Prejudice’ but also gives it a queer spin.

Every year, a group of friends - Noah (Joel Kim Booster, Netflix’s ‘Big Mouth’), Howie (Bowen Yang, ‘The Lost City’, TV’s ‘Saturday Night Live’), Luke (Matt Rogers, TV’s ‘I Love That For You’), Keegan (Tomás Matos, Netflix’s ‘Diana the Musical’) and Max (Torian Miller, TV's ‘Chicago Med’) - head to gay vacation destination Fire Island. When they arrive, their mother figure Erin (Margaret Cho, ’17 Again’, ‘Bright’) informs them that she is selling the vacation house, meaning this the last year they will be able to go. This means they are going all out; Noah has made a pact not to sleep with anyone until Howie does, and makes it his mission to find a guy for him. But when Howie starts falling in love with Charlie, (James Scully, ‘Straight Up’, Netflix’s ‘You’), frustration arises from Noah as worry for his friends grows - as well as an attraction to Will (Conrad Ricamore) - with concerns it could all come undone as trouble brews below the surface.