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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Salesrank: 95318
Released: May 21, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Robert Downey Jr. is Blake Allen, an arrogant self-absorbed actor who gets a double dose of girl trouble in this wildly provocative "look at love, lust and sexual commitment in the '90's." (Los Angeles Times)
They're as different as they are beautiful, but Carla (Heather Graham) and Lou (Natasha Gregson Wagner) have more in common than meets the eye. Each thinks she has the world's greatest boyfriend - until both realize they're talking about the same guy! Sparks fly when the two girls discover Blake's deception and team up to confront their lying, two-timing lover.
Description of Two Girls and a Guy:
Substitute "Gals" for "Girls" and you might mistake this for one of those romantic-comedy trifles they cranked out during World War II. Nothing could be further from the truth, though the film does have a lot to say about modern romance, and you'll laugh--while also gasping--frequently as the film unreels over a riveting hour and a half.
Two very different but equally smashing young women find themselves sharing the sidewalk outside a Soho apartment. Both blond Carla (Heather Graham, pre-Boogie Nights) and the dark-haired Lou (Natasha Gregson Wagner, daughter of Natalie Wood) are waiting for the same guy, an actor named Blake (Robert Downey Jr.), who--unbeknownst to either--has been sleeping with both of them for the past year. They break into Blake's pad and trade can-you-beat-that? anecdotes of his duplicity while waiting for him to show. Show he eventually does, and the mind games begin.
All three players are terrific, with Wagner enjoying a slight edge over indie veteran Graham because her character is fiercer and she's a new screen presence. But it's Downey who rules, partly because director James Toback wrote the script in direct response to seeing his old pal (Downey had starred in his 1987 movie The Pick-Up Artist) in a jail-house news feed after his first well-publicized arrest on drug charges. Actually, Downey's most amazing scene--a long soliloquy in front of a mirror--was largely improvised; it's a passage of monumental self-deception, self-revelation, and sheer genius. As exasperating as it is compelling, Two Girls and a Guy is one of the most provocative films of the '90s. --Richard T. Jameson
Two Girls and a Guy Reviews:
Ehh... 
2009-07-23 - It was okay, I guess...
I liked the music and the heavy-petting sex scene with Robert Downey and Heather Graham was pretty hot and this director is knowned for these scenes;I acted it out with my girlfriend, so not a bad movie.
Other than that, it pretty much sucked.
Not a good movie 
2009-04-15 - I am usually a fan of small production movies but this is not a good choice. Do not buy it. If you want to see it, rent it. Not worth the money...
False advertising
2008-12-21 - Amazon advertises this title as rated NC-17 but the DVD of the movie is rated R. I wsnted the NC-17 version!
ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES OF ALL TIME
2008-12-18 - This movie is forever etched in my mind and I wasted time and money that I will never get back watching this horrid piece of cinema back when I was in college with my g/f. Despite the fact that I only paid maybe $3 or $4 to watch this garbage at a movie theater. I seriously due mean to tell you that I felt genuinely cheated out of my money and so disappointed when it finally ended. I kid you not and I'm not making this up, many people got up mid-way through the movie because it was just so bad and stupid. I stuck around to the end to see if there might be some sex scene or some 3-some maybe? nope, nada. All I saw was horrible acting and if I remember correctly 99% of the movie was inside the apt. only with these 3 fools just talking and nothing more spectacular happening. I would not recommend this to anyone unless you happen to really really dislike somebody and tell them to rent this as a bad joke on that person. Do not waste your time seeing this, you've been warned. I would rate this negative 5 stars if I could.
Typical Toback 
2008-10-16 - Carla (Heather Graham) and Lou (Natasha Gregson Wagner) are two beautiful women who have never met and didn't think they had anything in common until one fateful day in New York. Both women are standing outside a sprawling loft when they get into a discussion about what pigs men are after both have just been hit on by one rather forward guy whose girlfriend catches him chatting up are two leading ladies. Lou does most of the talking describing her dream of a boyfriend Blake (Robert Downey Jr.). Blake is an actor and he can talk anyone into "buying a house without a roof." "Sounds irresistible" Carla replies. After more gushing from Lou something doesn't sit right with Carla. She realizes that her boyfriend also an actor sounds a lot like Lou's love and both women realize that Blake is stepping out with both of them at the same time. They break into his loft and wait for him to return where they plan to confront him and demand answers. Once the women break into the loft this film becomes like a stage play (a comparison that Toback hates as evidenced by his commentary track) taking place in one location and with a lot of talking. The acting has to be good to keep your interests with a film like this and fortunately it is. Graham is beautiful and great as the more self assured and forward of the two women but Wagner is given more of the funnier dialogue and has several rapid fire monologues. Of course Downey has the most difficult role having to be sympathetic and charming explaining his deception to both ladies. He is good though not perfect throughout. He is obviously playing Toback which he has done before to better effect in their previous collaboration The Pick Up Artist. Downey does have several funny moments though such as when he convinces the girls of what a great actor he is by playing Hamlet and when Graham asks him not to refer to her by name he replies " What am I supposed to call you, Timmy?" Of course Toback explores the same raw sexual material that he has explored in all of his work most notably the debate over ownership of the phallus that he first introduced in his debut film Fingers. Basically its eighty four minutes of talking that is occasionally funny, sometimes uncomfortable and truthful but ultimately leading to an ending that doesn't quite work. I would recommend that you check out the Pick Up Artist which is Downey's and Toback's first collaboration. It is PG-13 tame for Toback and is a sweet romance with Molly Ringwald as the object of affection and with a great supporting cast including Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel, and Danny Aiello.
