Andie's Rating: I bet I could make murder sound sexual
Andie's Review: Okay, so Threesome isn't exactly for everybody. The first time I saw it was in eighth grade with my two friends Rachel and Leah. From first viewing, I loved this movie. I thought it made some awesome points and I just really liked it. Rachel and Leah were completely traumatized by the experience; I think they have yet to fully recover. And so, being the only one who liked it, I of course had to keep my mouth shut for fear of being thought a weirdo. But now I stand firm in my liking of this movie and I want to tell you about it.

The premise is that Eddie (Josh Charles) transfers to college and starts living with Stuart (Stephen Baldwin). They become friends but all their bliss is upheaved one day by the arrival of Alex (Lara Flynn Boyle, one of my favorite actresses). For awhile, none of them get along. But soon they become very close friends. It turns into a typical love triangle with a twist. Stuart wants to jump Alex's bones, Alex has the hots for Eddie, but Eddie might be gay. He's not sure yet.

What all this amounts to is a movie that truly explores the relationship between men and women. I have always thought I was a lot like Alex and my freshman year of college, I met two guys that are a lot like Stuart and Eddie. I never had sex with either one of them, but I can totally relate with having this intense animal attraction to one guy and having this awesome mental/emotional relationship with the other one. For these characters, this relationship brings them into some sexual exploration that can be a very scary and exciting thing. There's really good development of Eddie's coming to terms about being gay and maybe being attracted to his friend Stuart. There's also this great scene where Alex finds Eddie in the library and wants him to read to her because she likes to hear guys say big words (I can totally relate. One time my friend Micah totally turned me on by using the word "surreptitiously"). It's great because Alex is getting all hot and bothered in the middle of the library. Hee hee

Overall, I just think this is a very entertaining and funny movie that deals with some very serious topics. It might offend some people but those people just have their heads in the sand and they suck. I highly recommend it to anyone who is mature enough to handle it.

The Scoop 1994 Rated R Romance/College Comedy Director Andrew Fleming Starring Lara Flynn Boyle Stephen Baldwin Josh Charles Alexis Arquette

Didja Notice?
Alex's play is a lesbian version of Oedipus Rex, which I find incredibly amusing.

The Movie Store!
Threesome: Movie [VHS]
Threesome: Soundtrack [CD]

Intermission!
Andie - When Stuart brings his little blonde friend over for dinner, I love the way Eddie and Alex pick her apart. I can totally relate and I am a little ashamed to admit it, but I'm totally like that to ditzy blondes.

Justin - So I haven't seen this movie yet, but I have a good related story. A woman friend of mine in college told us that back when this came out, her then-boyfriend took her to see it. He also brought along his best friend (a guy), and about mid-way through the movie, she began to get uncomfortable with the subject matter. Naturally, once the movie was over, the three of them were in a car and her boyfriend confessed that he was bisexual, and wanted to (ahem) recreate events from the movie. Naturally, she freaked. I believe she jumped out of the car in the countryside and ran home. True story.

Groovy Quotes

Eddie: It's been said that if you actually want to live in a dormitory you're either a mental patient or a freshman. I was neither. I was a junior transfer student and figured it couldn't be that bad. I hadn't been so wrong yet or since.

Alex: Stuart...if you don't stop eating my yogurt, and I know it was you, I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna f-ing kill you.
Stuart: You make murder sound so sexual, Alex.

Alex: I think there's something you should know. I find libraries very erotic. The smell of old books. The silence. The long aisles. You could get lost in the stacks.

Stuart: Straight sex is better than gay sex. It's written in the Bible.
Alex: [laughing] Is that the King James or the New World edition?

Alex: Aren't you just tired of this whole sex thing?
Eddie: How can I be tired of it if I haven't had any sex?
Alex: Well then have sex with someone outside our little circle.
Eddie: Ah, sex with strangers. That sounds wise.

[Alex brings a guy home]
Stuart: We think that Larry is very scary.
Eddie: And hairy.
Stuart: Very hairy.
Eddie: Very hairy. So be wary of very hairy scary Larry.

Eddie: I think all men are afraid of women because they're inherently better creatures.

Stuart: For me, sex is like pizza. Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.

[about Stuart being gay]
Eddie: Think about it. It makes total sense. He's a total misogynist. He hates women, they're just objects to him. He had an absent father and a domineering mother. And to top it all off he knows all the words to Oklahoma and The Music Man. He's a classic closet case.

Eddie: My college experience wasn't what I had planned. It bore no resemblence to the pictures in the brochure. But I'm not unhappy. I don't think any of us are. We got what we needed out of it. It's kind of like when you go on a vacation. You plan everything but then one day you make a wrong turn or take a detour and you end up in some crazy place you can't even find on the map, doing something you never thougth you'd do. You feel a little lost while it's happening, but later you realize it was the best part of the whole trip.

Stuart: How did we get on the ceiling?
Eddie: Did you pay the gravity bill this morning?
Stuart: I forgot!

If you liked this movie, try these:
Two Girls and a Guy
Chasing Amy

Soundtrack Review
Great version of "I'll Take You There," and a few other good songs.