Logline

As two nervous gay dads see their bright daughter through a series of dates from high school to college and beyond, they must balance their absurd overprotectiveness with recognition of her growing independence.

Synopsis

Gus Traynor (47) and Aditya Banerjee (40) are used to being their 16-year-old daughter Leanne’s cool gay dads, but they need strategies to be remotely comfortable with her dating. For Kurt Bass, her homecoming date, Gus and Adi activate Strategy One, Know the Basics, and ask him questions ranging from why he plays football – he could get a concussion! – to his opinions about the next election. The young couple goes, and the dads research Kurt online, hysterically convincing themselves he is a threat. Leanne comes home and reports that Kurt was a bore. Adi and Gus realize they might have even more to fear from the future.

Two years later, Leanne wears a sexy outfit to go clubbing with her goth boyfriend Vince Guber. The dads have prepared Strategy Two, Forge an Alliance, by sharing the evening with Leanne’s mom and Vince’s parents. Before he and Leanne leave, Vince spikes the parents’ drinks with a mixture of LSD and MDMA. Soon the parents are hallucinating and dancing. At the club, Vince tells Leanne what he did, and, furious, she heads home in time to interrupt an orgy. Leanne dumps Vince on the spot.

When, two years later, Leanne brings her boyfriend Hunter Hansen home from college, Adi and Gus go with Strategy Three, Pursue Genteel Courtship, and, over brunch, conclude that Hunter is charming – until they notice the gun under his jacket. A wild ride in an appropriated golf cart ends in a crash, but they succeed in warning Leanne, who knows about the gun already. Leanne is embarrassed, and her dads lament that they’ve botched this one.

Another two years pass, and Leanne brings home another man, Tex Rodriguez, for a cookout the night before they leave for a backpacking tour of Europe. Adi and Gus turn to Strategy Four, Be One of the Guys, but Tex is more interested in flirting with both dads. They pile up evidence that he’s gay; Leanne catches on and challenges them, and they decide they must let her make her own mistakes.

Eventually, Adi and Gus settle for Strategy Five – Fantasize! – and imagine Leanne’s “Mr. Right” and perfect wedding. As they wind up their daydreaming, Leanne tells them she’s going out with the girls, with no new men on the horizon. Relieved, the dads know they have time – but also that, sooner or later, time will run out, and Leanne will go her own way.