The 'My Policeman' Trailer Promises A Bittersweet Story

Despite the rush of romance to streaming in the wake of Bridgerton, real-life LGBTQ+ love stories are still few and far between in the mainstream. Besides shows like Gentleman Jack on HBO, most are content to stick with fictionalized series like Heartstopper or Love, Victor. But Amazon is going all out with its new film, My Policeman. It stars high-profile A-list actor Emma Corrin (The Crown) and the hoping-to-join-those-ranks Harry Styles (Dunkirk), an imagined retelling of novelist E. M. Forster's attempt at a three-way marriage.

Based on the book of the same name by Bethan Roberts, the story of My Policeman begins with the heterosexual half of the couple, Marion meeting the gentle policeman, Tom, in the early 1950s and falling in love with him, despite recognizing that his true desires lie elsewhere. But when he meets Patrick at the Brighton Museum, an artist who is immediately besotted with him, the three of them work out a deal. As Tom can only marry Marion (and homosexuality is still illegal in the U.K.), the three decide to form a relationship where Marion and Patrick share "My Policeman."

E.M. Forster, famous for writing novels such as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, was not openly gay the way we think of today, but he was not closeted to his close friends. It is known that he had a long-term relationship with a married policeman, Bob Buckingham and that there was a deal worked out with Buckingham's wife to share him. The movie will not stick to the same timeline. The romance takes place in the 1950s and the 1990s, while both Foster and Buckingham passed away in the mid-1970s.