This week, I had the pleasure of attending the Baltimore premiere of a new offbeat romcom, The Baltimorons. The film, entirely set in Baltimore at Christmastime, has had the city buzzing for two years as residents caught glimpses of actor and comedian Michael Strassner, a Baltimore local, and Liz Larsen—known for her role as Jessica Reed on Law & Order, Madoff, and a number of Broadway roles—filming on the streets.

To put it plainly: The film is magic, the kind that can only happen when there’s a deeply honest story being told over a backdrop that also, somehow, manages to tell its own story at the same time. Strassner and Larsen? Epic chemistry. Baltimore? Hardly a third wheel, but a star in its own right.

Much of the plot—a man’s struggle with addiction and wavering mental health—was p

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