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Directed by | James Toback |
Produced by |
Daniel Bigel Chris Hanley Michael Mailer Gretchen McGowan Edward R. Pressman |
Written by | James Toback |
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Cinematography | Barry Markowitz |
Edited by | Alan Oxman |
Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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84 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,000,000 |
Box office | $2,057,193 |
Two Girls and a Guy is a 1997 American comedy-drama film written and directed by James Toback and produced by Edward R. Pressman and Chris Hanley. It stars Robert Downey Jr., Heather Graham and Natasha Gregson Wagner.
The film is mainly based upon dialogue between the characters. It was shot almost entirely in real time, and within a single setting, leading some reviewers to compare the film to a stage play.
The film opens with Carla Bennett (Heather Graham) and Lou (Natasha Gregson Wagner) waiting in front of a New York building where their boyfriends live. In conversing, they find out Blake Allen (Robert Downey, Jr.) is their duplicitous boyfriend. In the first minutes of the film Blake is revealed to be a narcissistic actor, dating both of them on the side while claiming to visit his ill mother on the other days. The women wait for Blake inside his loft and confront him together. The remainder of the film takes place inside the loft, where Blake tries to talk his way out of trouble. In the end, both girls reveal that they have been unfaithful. Carla and Blake have sex, but Lou's suggestion of a threesome is rejected. His mother dies at the end of the film and Carla comforts him.
Two Girls and a Guy received mixed reviews from critics and holds a 52% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.