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Dating Amber

Dating Amber is a 2020 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by David Freyne. The film features two closeted teenagers in 1990s Ireland who decide to start a fake relationship. The film was produced with assistance from Fis Éireann - Screen Ireland, RTÉ, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BeTV Belgium and BNP Paribas Fortis Film Fund (France). The film was distributed in Ireland through Wildcard.

It was released on Amazon Prime Video in Ireland and the UK on 4 June 2020, followed by a theatrical release in Ireland. The film was released in the US on 11 November 2020.

The film is set in 1995 in The Curragh, Ireland, where teenagers Eddie and Amber are treated like outsiders and are distraught over persistent homophobic abuse. They decide to join forces and hide their sexuality from the rural Irish town in which they live by pretending to be a heterosexual couple.

Amber wants to escape a life overshadowed by the suicide of her father to lead a lesbian punk lifestyle in a more liberal environment. She is saving money to move to London by surreptitiously renting out caravans to teenage couples in need of some privacy on a park her mother runs. Eddie is not so confident of his sexuality and intends to follow his insensitive and often absent father into the Irish Army as is expected of him.

On trips to Dublin the faux couple begin to absorb its gay culture. Eddie is seen passionately kissing another man in a gay bar by someone from their home town. This causes Eddie to panic and attack him and other witnesses to his kiss. Meanwhile, Amber begins a secret relationship with Sarah, a girl she also meets in the gay bar in Dublin.

Amber comes out to her mother, who meets Sarah and understands that her daughter wants and needs to be with her girlfriend. She is then outed to the town through the local priest, after her mother goes to confession, breaking his vow of silence on a technicality.

Initially Eddie cannot accept that his pretense with Amber is over, and goes so far as insulting her publicly. He then tries to establish a heterosexual relationship with schoolmate Tracey prior to joining the army.

When Eddie is about to enlist and board a bus for basic training, Amber appears and offers him her savings to help him escape living a lie. He hesitantly accepts his sexuality and the money to buy a train ticket to another life. Eddie opens the box containing the money, revealing half of a photo booth picture strip inside. The film ends with both of them smiling, finally accepting who they really are.

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