A romantic comedy about political polarization
Coming soon from writer-director Erik Bork
“Tribalism… is the curse of our times right now. Tribalism hinges on us not seeing each other as full, multi-dimensional, fully fleshed human beings. It hinges on us seeing everybody as either pro or con, ally or enemy, friend or foe. People are more complicated than that. Life is more complicated than that.” – Frank Bruni, New York Times columnist – on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher – 3/12/22
COMING TOGETHER is a light-hearted feature film about a serious subject. What happens when a young single woman — an avowed progressive — discovers the guy she met online and likes happens to be a supporter of President Donald Trump? Who believes, a month after the 2020 election, that it was stolen for Joe Biden?
The answer is that she decides to see if she can change his views. And to see if he’s someone she could actually date, regardless.
At first she thinks they just need to part ways; it’s hopeless. But he has enough good qualities — including his openness to hear her point-of-view and even be converted — that she decides to keep seeing him. After all, if she can have an impact on just one person who believes what he believes, perhaps it will help her feel less helpless and like she really achieved something?
Plus he’s really cute. And not at all strident. If anything, he’d rather not talk about politics and wishes she never saw his “Make America Great Again” hat in the background of a Zoom call.
By her side in all this is her new roommate, a gay man who is the opposite of the romcom “gay best friend” trope. He’s not fabulous, extroverted or interested in talking about her love life. At all. But she so wants to. And she can help him with something he wants — to get in better shape and lose some pounds.
So she sets about enthusiastically training him while getting his take on what’s going on with the Trump supporter. She gets closer to both of them in the process. But she doesn’t exactly change the guy’s politics. In fact, he decides to attend the January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, as he starts to tire of being her “project.” She despairs. Is all hope lost?
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Writer-Director Erik Bork
Erik Bork is best known for his Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning work as one of the producers and writers of the epic HBO miniseries BAND OF BROTHERS and FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, where he worked alongside executive producer Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg (on BAND OF BROTHERS).
Erik’s lengthy professional screenwriting career also includes stints writing for two primetime drama series on NBC and the former CW, selling numerous pitches for series and movies to the likes of NBC, the Fox network, HBO and TNT, and writing scripts on assignment for both feature film and television projects.
Erik is also a well-known script consultant and blogger on screenwriting who has taught for UCLA Extension’s renowned Writers’ Program and National University’s MFA in Professional Screenwriting. His book THE IDEA: THE SEVEN ELEMENTS OF A VIABLE STORY FOR SCREEN, STAGE OR FICTION was published in 2018 and is a multi-category Amazon best-seller.
Erik Bork wrote and directed I GOT THIS, which was released in 2018 and is streaming on the renowned Omeleto short film channel on YouTube, where it’s been viewed almost 300,000 times with over 1,000 comments.
