| Two Girls and a Guy | |
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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 |
| Starring | Robert Downey, Jr. Natasha Gregson Wagner Heather Graham |
| Cinematography | Barry Markowitz |
| Editing by | Alan Oxman |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 24, 1998 |
| Running time | 84 mins |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$1,000,000 |
Two Girls and a Guy is a film produced in 1997 by Edward R. Pressman and Chris Hanley. The director was James Toback, who also wrote the screenplay.
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The film opens with Lou (Natasha Gregson Wagner) and Carla Bennett (Heather Graham) 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.
The film is mainly based upon dialogue between the characters. The film is shot almost entirely in real time, and within a single setting, leading some reviewers to compare the film to a stage play.[1]
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