When Carmen Emmi read a 2016 article in the Los Angeles Times about a Long Beach sting operation that targeted gay men a few years earlier, it made him feel nervous. The article brought up anxieties he experienced growing up that he didn’t realize at the time were related to his queerness. But dipping into those waters again allowed Emmi to write and direct his debut feature, “Plainclothes,” which made a huge splash at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and is opening this weekend in Atlanta after a sold-out screening at Out On Film. In the film, Tom Blyth plays Lucas, an undercover agent luring and arresting gay men in a mall bathroom circa 1997. While on the job, Lucas unexpectedly falls for Andrew (Russell Tovey), one of the men targeted. These feelings are new to Lucas and ce

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