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Real-life couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick reunite on-screen after 20 years in a new romantic comedy. Bacon stars as a security guard who disrupts a robbery and strikes up a friendship with Sedgwick’s character. The couple has previously appeared in multiple films together and have also acted in each other’s directorial projects.

Real-life couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are reuniting on-screen for the first time in decades. The duo will star in Connescence, a new romantic comedy from King of Queens creator Michael J. Weithorn. Deadline reports that Bacon will star as Stan Olszewski, a security guard who disrupts a robbery at the home of urologist Cynthia Rand (Sedgwick) and her husband, retired prosecutor Warren (Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans). Stan and Cynthia strike up a friendship that threatens to become something more. Brittany O’Grady (The White Lotus) also stars in the film, which is currently filming in Brooklyn.

Weithorn will both write and direct Connescence; a veteran of TV sitcoms including The Goldbergs, Family Ties, and Ned and Stacey, it will be his second feature film, after the 2010 Jenna Fischer/Chris O’Donnell dramedy A Little Help. Say Bacon and Sedgwick of the project, ““We are so excited to work together on screen again for the first time in 20 years in such a funny, moving and original script.” The duo has been married since 1988, and have two children, including Smile’s Sosie Bacon.

When Have Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick Worked Together?
Bacon and Sedgwick first met during rehearsals for the Lanford Wilson play Lemon Sky, which was filmed for PBS. They were married shortly afterward, and have appeared in many of the same productions. Those include the bizarre 1991 pyrokinesis comedy Pyrates, the 1995 legal drama Murder in the First, and 2004’s acclaimed The Woodsman, in which Bacon plays a convicted child molester. Additionally, each has acted in a film the other directed; Bacon directed Sedgwick and himself (and both of their children) in 2005’s star-studded drama Loverboy, while Sedgwick directed Bacon in the 2022 science fiction romantic comedy Space Oddity. Bacon also directed four episodes of Sedwick’s long-running TV series The Closer.

Together and apart, both Bacon and Sedgwick have kept busy as of late. Bacon recently starred as himself in the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (which also featured a brief vocal cameo from Sedgwick), as well as the LGBT-themed slasher movie They/Them and the Netflix hit Leave the World Behind. He can next be seen in the belated action sequel Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Macon Blair’s Toxic Avenger remake, and Ti West’s X trilogy capper MaXXXine. Sedgwick is set to appear in the comedy Bad Shabbos with Milana Vayntrub and the political drama Thirsty.

Connescence is currently filming in Brooklyn; a release date has not yet been set. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.