Love and Taxe$

Love and Taxe$: A Cinematic High-Wire Act

The Concept: When Lloyd J. Schwartz first handed us the script for Love and Taxe$, he didn’t just give us a story; he said, “The caveat that makes this work is that you must shoot every scene in one continuous shot.” The challenge felt like a return to the roots of true cinema. We fell in love with it instantly.  Our intention was to  capture every moment in real-time and create an intimate, unedited window into a world of shifting societal norms and raw human connection.

The Story: In a world of audits and heartbreaks, a struggling waitress and an ambitious CPA discover the one thing more complicated than the yearly tax meetings:  Falling in Love.

The film centers on Donald (Jake Reiner), an ambitious CPA, and Belinda (Alexis Abrams), a free-spirited waitress, whose lives intersect in a 1970s landscape of yearly tax meetings. The “one-shot” format tethers the audience to the characters’ escalating tension, making every second of the narrative inescapable.Their annual dance of mutual attraction during tax season becomes a fleeting world where their personal and professional lives collide.

The Pedigree: Crafted by legendary writer/producer Lloyd J. Schwartz (The Brady Bunch) and featuring and instrumental It Had to Be You as the title song by Laurence Juber (lead guitarist for Paul McCartney and Wings), Love and Taxe$ is as much a sonic experience as it is a visual one. Plus, “Reiner + Rom-Com” is shorthand for “This movie is actually funny.”

The film marks the stunning leading debut of Jake Reiner—carrying forward the iconic Reiner legacy with an award-winning performance—alongside the magnetic Alexis Abrams, whose portrayal of Belinda has already earned her multiple Best Actress honors. Together, they deliver a narrative infused with ’70s charm, irony, wit, and a bold, “one-shot” energy that is truly unique to modern cinema.