Love Thing captures the emerging multicultural spirit and personal freedom of the late 1970s with an outrageous attitude and experimental style.
Channels change on an old television set. Are we watching a nostalgic TV show or a funny American movie musical? Yes, it is reality TV from the past. Your average Latina housewife, Chi-Chi, is suffering from a sexless marriage while husband, Bill, is annoyed by their lack of communication. Their middle-class suburban life begins to unravel through musical fantasies and flashbacks. The gay son, Junior, suggests she call a self-help guru, Mr. Loveboy, who guarantees to transform her into an ultimate woman, fabulous housewife. After-work in a bar, Bill has a strange daydream that awakens his manhood and returns home for a big surprise. But is this family living in the real world or on TV, for an audience or themselves?—Media -M- Productions
A work in progress that is now finally completed Love Thing could be considered the last American musical comedy of the late 1970s as well as a timely satire on our social media culture. With visually enhanced fantasy scenes plus a new music score by composer Joel Diamond which features musical styles from Disco, Jazz, Latin and Classical, its vision has now been realized. This vision explores the creative boundaries of the traditional musical comedy format in a prescient music video style, mixing aspects of cabaret, burlesque, TV commercials and Hollywood musicals with dreams and reality. Foretelling, Love Thing asks the question, "What happens after the marriage?" In a gender reversal role, versatile actor Joaquin La Habana portrays your average American housewife as trapped in a TV world of contrived sitcoms and soap operas trying to save her marriage. The family relationships go beyond what is apparent on the surface because this mix of racial, sexual and gender identity has no reference in that past era. Viewing it today through the filter of time creates another dimension to the experience of this outrageous musical comedy.—Media -M- Productions
