Jordan Firstman's debut feature 'Club Kid' is dressed up in the spiky style and slang of New York's queer scene, but its core is pure Hollywood.

The 'I Love LA' actor’s Cannes-bowing directorial debut trades the queer provocation of his past work for a cozy fable about unexpected parenthood.

The 126-minute film, which premiered in the festival’s Un Certain Regard selection, casts Firstman as a washed-up party promoter who is forced to turn his life around when an…