Charlie and Harry are a typical couple. They live together, work side-by-side, and fight incessantly. Though their relationship has survived decades, they will face their most difficult challenge yet, as Harry prepares for a trial and Charlie is confronted by an unexpected guest. Based on the play by Charles Dyer, Staircase sees two men examining their often explosive relationship, pondering whether their love can and should last. You’ll be amused, teased, shocked, and emotionally moved, but not necessarily in that order.
“Harrison and Burton give the central relationship a lived-in quality and a gentleness… Staircase respects the gay relationship at its core enough to depict it in all of its frustrating complexity and frequent ugliness.” – Nathan Rabin, The Dissolve
