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Threesome (1994)

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Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 5

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Movie Info

Well-groomed junior transfer student Eddy (Josh Charles) forges an unlikely friendship with messy party animal Stuart (Stephen Baldwin) after the two room together in an all-male dorm at a large university. When Alex (Lara Flynn Boyle) ends up in the adjoining suite because of her mannish name, all three students fall into an overheated friendship that provides cover for no less than three unrequited loves. Alex, a sexpot who's turned on by big words, falls hard for intellectual Eddy, who's

R, 1 hr. 34 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Andrew Fleming

May 1, 2001

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (18) | DVD (8)

The film is so proud of its alleged daring that it even begins with a dictionary definition of the word 'deviant.' 'Sitcom' would have been more like it.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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Threesome, by falling into the common trap of mistaking pretentiousness for substance, loses its way early on.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
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Not a great movie, but in its own way it is an effective one, and more than most other movies it is accurate and honest about the sexuality of young people.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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The three become a giggly and rather insufferable bunch.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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A tedious, toilet-talking, try-sexual tease.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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Mildly charming and occasionally sexy but shallow and silly menage at trois tale set at UCLA dormitory.

July 20, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

The movie often plays more like a wisecracking sitcom -- Saved by the Bell with four-letter words -- than a wise romantic roundelay.

January 9, 2002 Full Review Source: Movieline | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Threesome

Wild and crazy, but it was pretty good.

May 8, 2010
dreamfaeries

Super Reviewer

I saw this on a war crime of a date. Sorry Threesome, but you must pay and Lara Flynn Boyle must eat...

February 13, 2007
mjgildea

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