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COMING IN

By Marco KREUZPAINTNER

Comedy - Completed 2014

Notoriously hip Berlin-based celebrity hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with Heidi, the quirky owner of a neighborhood hair salon, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far so good. Only one problem: Tom is gay.

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 104 mn
- Director(s)
- Marco KREUZPAINTNER
- Cast
- Kostja ULLMANN, Aylin TEZEL, Ken DUKEN
- Producer(s)
- Gabriela BACHER, Christoph MÜLLER, Christian ANGERMEYER
- Synopsis
- Tom Herzner, 30, is the hair stylist for men in Berlin. He's attractive, glamorous, runs a posh salon and is an openly gay celebrity who is seen as a role model for the gay community. But when he plans his first hair-product line, the cosmetic company rep gets jittery: he feels that just targeting men is too restrictive. What about women? To get an idea of what women want, Tom is forced to work incognito at a hair salon-cum-barber-shop somewhere in an edgy Berlin neighborhood run by the sassy, gut-honest Heidi.
  Heidi outfits Tom with a wig and a soccer T-shirt, and mischievously renames him “Horst.” A few days into his undercover work, the bewildered Tom starts to enjoy his role. Heidi's selfless and unpretentious nature gives Tom a whole new take on things and helps him create a shampoo that will drive both sexes crazy. His main source of amazement, though, is Heidi herself, who puts up with a soccer-crazed boyfriend and has fallen madly in love with the unattainable Tom. He, meanwhile, is being put in his place by his friends, for he, too, has fallen in love: with Heidi...
  
  With its rapid-fire dialogues and witty vignettes of gay life, "Coming In" depicts a lighter side of gender relations that will touch – and tickle – every viewer.