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Type of bind: Video On Demand
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Running Time: 85 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 4744
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: January 01, 1998
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I think I'd rather sit through a root canal than watch this horrific film again. James Toback has to be the worst writer/director at work today. Even talented Robert Downey Jr. is wasted. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
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God, what a steaming pile. A huge, steaming pile. It's packed with non-stop, pop-feminist, "let's-bring-men-down-a-notch" psycho-babble blather about philandering men and their mommy fixations. What a risibly pretentious steaming pile. I actually burst out with an invountary barrage of contemptuous laughter when the ignoramus played by Natasha Gregson Wagner referenced Anais Nin in this risibly pretentious, incessantly voluble steaming pile. Did anyone else want to punch both these women in the mouth? Did anyone else wonder if James Toback is trying to score some points with the poetry chicks at his local cappucino bar? Did anyone else find themselves praying for death? Did I mention that this movie is a steaming pile?
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The very first 30 minutes is hilarious and entertaining. Then it becomes so unrealistic and boring that it's hard to watch.
It's worth viewing for curiosity.
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Two Girls and a Guy was a movie I misseed while I was graduating high school and I remembered hearing about it but just saw it now. I found it pretty good.....was expecting a crazy 3some with the NC-17 rating but the sex scene was pretty decent atleast there was some tongue involved and actually lasted more than 30 seconds unlike the "R" rated movies of yesterday which there are no sex scenes anymore. Heather Graham was adorable as always and I liked the other girl too. Robert Downey Jr. did a great job as a typical womanizer and actually did manage to wrangle himself out of this one(somewhat) except he learned a few things he didn't want to know in the process. I am glad I watched it and had a good time....
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Why does Downey Jr. lie to the two girls? Here's my take on it. Not because he couldn't get both of them without lying: after all, neither of the girls are married to him, and he could've openly had two or three semi-serious girlfriends and a few groupies also as a bachelour and up-and-coming star-on-the-rise actor starting to get steady work. He lied because he wanted not just superficial sex but two serious and involved relationships at the same time, two real girlfriends at the same time, almost like bigamy; he didn't lie to get the girls to physically put-out, he lied to get them to spiritually commit a deeper part of themselves that they otherwise wouldn't. So when he says that he loved both of them equally (or almost equally), he pretty much means it; and when he had said to each girl that other girls now disgust him, he really meant that too, in the spiritual sense that is about all other girls except the two main ones he was involved with. He may have had a few mainly physical encounters but spiritually and romantically he's basically tied to these two women, one of whom will eventually have to go because of time constraints or a slightly higher level of incompatibility. The same would obviously apply if a girl had willingly put herself in this rather flattering dilemma (as the poster for Truffaut's `Jules et Jim' on the wall constantly implies, a film in which there was no deception but which ended tragically because Jeanne Moreau refused to give up her irrational desire to be loved by more than one man until she turned off both of them).
What I think Toback is trying to do is show people ways of communicating they haven't considered or have been programmed to overlook. He's trying to say that this situation doesn't have to end up negatively or in some kind of overblown melodrama, though it's definitely prime material for farce. Every endeavor at taking it to that cliche area of hurt and shattered and devastated feelings, and overblown psychotic role playing imposed by half-baked and prejudiced societal rules is shown to be not only ridiculous but transcendable by only a little strength and street-or-book-or-other-wise perspective. Of course, the Natasha Gregson Wagner character is the one that shows the most strength because she gets the short end and refuses to stoop to fighting for her man with Heather Graham; not only that, she doesn't even break relations with Graham and asks her to call her. . In 99 out of a hundered other films as soon as Graham and Downey start getting it on in that other room, Gregson Wagner would've broken a whole bunch of Downey's bric-a-brac-furniture, stormed out the apartment cursing and slammed the door, or, barged in on them and had a tantrum wanting to kill both of them. But is that kind of impulsive over-reaction all human beings are capable of? No, and Toback shows that sex outside a serious relationship, even if it's with someone in an equally serious relatoinship who is a direct threat, is not the end of the world and it can be dealt with intelligently and calmly, not through some ridiculous tantrum.
What Toback is laying down here in this film isn't anything new but basically a variation on what many widely read books of the late '60s and early '70s dealt with, books like `Pairing,' `Open Marriage,' etc. They dealt with the fact that sexual desires don't go away after marriage or the attainment of a serious relationship and should not be restricted because that creates more problems than it solves. Desires are then only willingly & voluntarily not acted upon by the parties concerned because the time spent pursuing them could be better and more efficiently spent in the main relationship which is already a source of much joy. They emphasize the importance of the strength of the main relationship so that even if the desires are acted upon physically, that's where it usually ends and the level of intimacy achieved doesn't seem to be worth it compared to the main relationship, therefore further reinforcing the main bond. In other words, a positively re-inforcing circle instead of vicious one. If there's no strong relationship aside from the strictly physical to hold a man and a woman together, then that couple has no business pretending they have a real relationship anyway and traditional restraints will make cheating more attractive, not less. The problem, of course, is always TIME, all serious relationships in the end end up pretty much monogamous (in spirit if not exactly 100% in physical fact) because a serious relationship takes work, real work, and there is simply too much time and energy required to carry on even as little as two serious love affairs at once on a high level. They based these theories on research into why so many traditional marriages failed. People sneer at these theories now without even stopping to think but very little has changed and much has been reversed since the days of the sexual revolution. It may even ... Read More
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