Writer/director Erik Bork summoned the late Rodney King with his newest film.

It’s called “The Elephant in the Room,” although the subtitle could easily have been, “Can’t We All Just Get Along?”

'It made it a bigger challenge. How do you make a romantic comedy when you have that in the middle of it?'

The rom-com stars Alyssa Limperis and Sean Kleier (“Wedding Season”) as a couple staring down a near-impossible divide. She’s a dyed-in-the-wool progressive, and he voted for Donald Trump.

Twice.

Can this romance survive a very 21st-century fissure? Even more important, can a modern-day filmmaker treat conservatives fairly in a politically charged project?

Splitsville

Bork, who co-wrote “Band of Brothers” and “From the Earth to the Moon,” started worrying about the state of the unio

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