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Threesome

  • Director: Lou Antonio
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Sex Comedy
  • Main Cast: Stephen Collins, Deborah Raffin, Joel Higgins
  • Release Year: 1984
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 97 minutes

Plot

In this drama, a man from the Midwest moves to the Big Apple after he separates from his wife. While in the big city an old college buddy gets him involved in a complicated love triangle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Dana Delany; Susan Hess; Addison Powell

Credit

Lou Antonio - Director, John F. Link - Editor, Angela Morley - Composer (Music Score), Ward Macintosh - Production Designer, Adam Holender - Cinematographer, Ron Roth - Producer, Lawrence B. Marcus - Teleplay By, Herbert Gold - Book Author
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Dictionary: three·some   (thrē'səm) pronunciation
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n.
  1. A group of three persons or things.
  2. An activity involving three people, especially a golf match in which one player competes against two others who alternate their play.
adj.
Consisting of or performed by three.


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Threesome

theatrical release poster
Directed by Andrew Fleming
Produced by Brad Krevoy
Written by Andrew Fleming
Starring Lara Flynn Boyle
Stephen Baldwin
Josh Charles
Alexis Arquette
Martha Gehman
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography Alexander Gruszynski
Editing by William C. Carruth
Distributed by TriStar
Release date(s) April 8, 1994
Running time 93 minutes
Country  United States
Language English
Gross revenue $14,815,317[1]

Threesome is a 1994 film, written and directed by Andrew Fleming. The film is an autobiographical comedy mixed in with some social commentary, and is based on the college memories of Fleming. It was given an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America.

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Plot

Due to an administrative error two male college students, the shy and intellectual Eddy (Josh Charles) and the All-American jock Stuart (Stephen Baldwin), end up with a female roommate. The university thought that Alex (Lara Flynn Boyle) was a man (based on her name) and thus the three students are forced to live with each other until the university can move Alex to a female residence hall.

Alex falls in love and tries unsuccessfully to seduce Eddy; Stuart is in love with Alex, and Eddy falls in love with Stuart. The trio become good friends and scare off anyone who tries to seduce the other. Eventually, Alex, Stuart and Eddy agree to have an actual threesome that seems to destroy the friendship, and raises the possibility that Alex might have become pregnant.

After the threesome, they start to drift apart. Three weeks later the semester ends and Alex moves to an apartment. The next year Eddy gets a single dorm with no roommates and the three continue to drift apart. Eddy (who acts as the film's narrator) eventually finds a boyfriend, Stuart finds happiness in a monogamous relationship with a woman, and Alex remains single. While they drifted apart, only to see each other for lunch occasionally, they do not seem to regret the friendship they had while in college.

Criticism

Upon release, the film received negative reviews. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 26% of critics gave Threesome positive reviews, based on 23 reviews.[2] Critics such as Roger Ebert felt that film was unfunny, and that "Like many kids their age, these three are more bold in talk than action, and the movie sounds right; it sounds like undergraduate human dialogue, intended to shock, to liberate, to amuse."[3] Yet, even Peter Travers' review for Rolling Stone magazine wrote, "We're supposed to get all teary when kinkiness threatens to break up a friendship that was hard to swallow in the first place. There's lots of glossy cinematography, courtesy of Alexander Gruszynski, as the three lovers wander the campus separately, looking contemplative. Now there's a laugh. Eddy, a film student, actually makes reference to François Truffaut's ménage à trois classic, Jules and Jim. Eddy, you wish." [4]

DVD

In 2001, a DVD version of the film was released with some special features: a director's audio commentary, an alternate ending, various language subtitles and cast talent files.

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Translations: Threesome
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - gruppe på tre, spil med tre deltagere
adj. - tremands-

Nederlands (Dutch)
driemanschap

Français (French)
n. - (gén) groupe de trois, (Jeux) partie à trois
adj. - de trois, à trois

Deutsch (German)
n. - Dreiergruppe, Dreier(spiel)
adj. - Dreier..., dreifach

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τριάδα, τρίο, ερωτικό τρίγωνο

Italiano (Italian)
terzetto

Português (Portuguese)
n. - trio, trinca, de três

Русский (Russian)
втроем, тройка, трое, группа, состоящая из трех, (гольф) игра одного партнера против двух

Español (Spanish)
n. - grupo de tres, cosa (partida de golf) en que participan tres personas
adj. - en que participan tres personas

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tremannagrupp, trio, trekant

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
三倍的, 三人的竞赛, 三人一组, 三人一组的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 三倍的, 三人的競賽, 三人一組
adj. - 三人一組的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 3인조, 스리섬, 그 경기자들
adj. - 3인조의, 셋이서 하는

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 三人組, スリーサム

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مجموعه من ثلاثه اشخاص او اشياء, الثلاثي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שלישייה, משחק לשלושה אנשים‬
adj. - ‮מורכב משלושה אנשים, משוחק ע"י שלושה אנשים‬


 
 
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