Two women wait impatiently in front of a SoHo loft, each hoping to surprise
her boyfriend upon his return from a trip to Los Angeles. Carla (Heather
Graham) is beautiful, smart, sophisticated, reserved. Lou (Natasha Gregson
Wagner) is vivacious, sexy, sassy and outspoken. Chatting, these two equally
compelling women discover a surprise of their own - that the fantastic boyfriend
they are each supposedly having a monogamous love affair with is the very
same man: Blake Allen (Robert Downey Jr.), a struggling actor with a talent
for evading the truth.
Carla and Lou could just walk away from a cruel, inexplicable betrayal and
begin again. But that's not what they decide to do. Instead they sneak into
Blake's apartment, and over the next few incredible hours, the two women
attempt to uncover the truth about the enigmatic Blake Allen any which way
they can - from dramatic confrontation to fevered seduction to shocking
revelation.
Why did such a seemingly talented and passionate man stoop to such damaging
sexual duplicitousness? Did he really love either of them? Can love exist
under a veil of lies? And what about his mother?
These and other questions come to the fore in James Toback's provocative,
sexy and cinematically inventive look at the comedy and confusion of romance:
"Two Girls and a Guy."
Lou: I thought you loved me. I really did. And, Carla thought you loved
her.
Blake: I did I and I do. I really
Lou: Me or her?
Blake: Both of you.
Lou: Oh, both is very convenient, really convenient.
Writer/director James Toback re-examines the age-old love triangle from
an entirely new angle in his provocative comedy "Two Girls and a Guy."
Shot in just eleven days almost entirely in real time and with a frank sexual
realism, the film is a bold attempt to capture dramatically and visually
the intensity, complexity and ambiguity of modern relationships in a time
when fidelity, sexuality and honesty aren't always a happy trio.
Which of the three will survive and who will fall in love are two of the
questions that drive the psychological suspense in this emotionally charged
tale of the late '90s.
"The essential idea," Toback says, "was to portray and dramatize
an increasingly significant part of the modern sexual/romantic world, a
world in which AIDS, while acknowledged as the ongoing health danger it
surely is, has ceased to paralyze people in their quest for sexual discovery,
a world in which traditional ideas about romance and love - sexual fidelity,
commitment, permanence - are all being rigorously re-examined, a world in
which honesty and directness are qualities valued as highly in theory as
they are violated frequently in practice."
Thus was set in motion a story of three characters drawn into an unexpected
dissection of the desires, passions and fears that brought them together
in the first place and will perhaps now drive them apart.
Says Toback: "These two women have each spent ten months with Blake,
thinking he was theirs. Now they know he's a liar and a cheat. So a) they
want to know how he did it; b) they want to know why he did it; and c) there's
still a matter of competition between them."
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