Sometimes, what makes a fight scene special isn’t how intense and visceral it is but how awkward and surprising. In Michael Angelo Covino’s new romantic comedy, Splitsville , which follows the amorous entanglements of two couples, the film’s two male leads (played by Covino and his longtime writing and producing partner, Kyle Marvin) get into an unexpected knock-down-drag-out fight that lays waste to two floors of a very elegant house in the Hamptons. Through every stage of their dorkily hilarious combat, we can tell that it really is the two actors going at it.

Here’s what happens in the fight. (It happens fairly early in the film, so there are no broad spoilers here, aside from specific details of this scene.) Sensitive elementary-school gym teacher Carey (Marvin) has just informed re

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