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Switches is near future comedy about a couple on the brink of divorce who take a pill to save their marriage.

Synopsis

Los Angeles, present day. The rent is high, the tension is higher, and a hush‑hush pharma start‑up called Happy Couples promises an empathy revolution through its trial drug Switch—a crimson capsule that lets couples trade consciousness for 24 hours.

Enter Dawn and Jake Butler, once the “it” couple of the DTLA creative scene. Jake ditched a lucrative tech career to chase the adrenaline of day-party DJ sets; Dawn climbed a brutal TV writers’ room, fighting for her first script. Their calendar is full, their bank account light, and the spark that held their opposites together is flickering out. When an eviction notice (and a looming divorce) pushes them to Happy Couples, they swallow the Switch—anything for one last shot at the love they once shared.

The pill works! Dawn wakes in Jake’s six‑foot‑four frame; Jake jolts into Dawn’s tattoo‑free body. They must walk, work, and love in each other’s lives for a single day—until an accident, a forbidden drink, and an even more forbidden night trap them in the swap for an entire trimester. Switches is a sharp, R‑rated romantic comedy in miniature – part body‑swap comedy, part love-story reset—that asks whether empathy can be engineered, and what it really takes to walk a mile (or just one impossible day) in your partner’s shoes.
 

Meet the Filmmakers

Brandon Broussard — Producer
Brandon Broussard started the feature writing team, Murder Ink with Hudson Obayuwana and Jana Savage in 2015. Since then, his writing team has had several films produced including The Perfect Match for Lionsgate, #RealityHigh for Netflix and Praise This for Universal Studios. Their spec, Homecoming based on Brandon’s experience at Howard University was on the 2021 Blacklist and is currently set at Lionsgate with he and his team producing. Currently, they’re writing the latest The Addams Family film, Cousin It for Amazon/MGM and are in pre-production on Just Wynn, a feature comedy starring Chris Tucker with Good Fear and STX producing. Brandon wrote and directed the short film, Run which was in several festivals. Switches: A Future Love Story, is Brandon’s debut as a solo feature writer and director. Brandon resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Mikah and their 3.5 year old son, Maverick. 

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