Forget your expectations this charming, touching and hilarious movie

Before you watch this movie, I urge you to eschew any trailers and press. The plot moves in a lifelike manner never giving you what you expect, but never making a move that doesn't make sense in retrospect. Even in the first 15 minutes you will get an impression of where it is going, but you will likely be wrong. The central question that the movie hangs on is "Who are you fighting?". Mercedes quest to figure out the answer to that question will take you on emotional highs and lows as the characters struggle with identity, politics and morality. Kristina Valada-Viars's performance as Molly is striking and believable, wearing a mask of lies over a past of so much hurt. Even characters like her mother hide great depth beneath their masks and the parts that they play in society. The acting and writing will not disappoint.

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An emotional misfit named Molly believes she's found love in a drunken one-night stand with a gay-marriage lesbian activist named Mercedes. But once sober, Mercedes discovers she cannot escape the clingy and desperate Molly. As she's about to call upon all of her legal options to rid herself of Molly, Mercedes learns that Molly's father is actually an influential state senator opposed to gay marriage. Seeing this as a golden opportunity, Mercedes convinces Molly to pretend that they are an engaged lesbian couple, though Molly's not at all gay, as a way to drive a stake into the senator's politics. But as Mercedes gets to know Molly's family, she begins to understand who Molly is and why they surprisingly share so much in common.

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