Tom Ford is readying up the release of his criticly-acclaimed and highly-awaited first movie effort A Single Man. The film is slated for a December 11th release. A Single Man is a 2009 American drama film directed by Tom Ford. The film is based on the Christopher Isherwood novel of the same name and stars Colin Firth as the protagonist George Falconer, a gay British college professor living in Southern California. The rest of the cast includes Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode and Nicholas Hoult. The film is Ford’s directorial debut.