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Starring Heather Graham, Natasha Gregson-Warner, Robert Downey. ![[Photo]](/photos/twogirlsandaguy2.jpg) Two Girls and a Guy is one of those rare movies whose entire plot is spelled out in the title. If someone were to ask me to summarize the action in this film, as a friend of mine recently did, I would say, and did say, "There's two girls and a guy in an apartment. Ohm and they talk." Heather Graham and Natasha Gregson-Warner stars as the two girls, with Robert Downey starring as the guy. Downey has been dating both Graham and Gregson-Warner for the last 10 months. He has professed his love for both girls, and they vice-versa. Everything is going well until Graham and Gregson-Warner bumps into each other in front of Downey's apartment one night, while waiting to surprise him and learn of his evil misdoings. The only surprise in this movie comes as neither of the two girls gets really mad at Downey for dating them at the same time (and, incidentally, sleeping with, at his count, 5 or 6 other women too). Now this is just me, but if I were somehow able to date two women simultaneously for 10 months, told both of them I loved them, and then got caught, I would expect fireworks the likes of which occurred after the Ming Dynasty was toppled in China. I would expect frying pans, plates, chairs, and just about any other liftable objects in my apartment that weren't bolted down to be hurled in my general direction with the intent to hurt, maim, and/or kill, whether or not one of the girls possessed a throwing arm which Randy Johnson would envy. I would consider myself lucky to be able to escape the claws of the two scorned women with just an arm, a leg, or a kidney missing. I would not however, under any circumstances, ever expect one of the two girls to attempt to seduce me, or to end the day with my relationships with both girls being amiable. Unfortunately, all the aforementioned events that I would never expect to happen, happened in Two Girls and a Guy. The physical production of this film is quite stunning when compared with the script you'd have trouble finding at the local Suck-O-Rama. Despite the fact that the grand majority of this movies action takes place inside Downey's loft, I never grew tired of the setting, Toback always knowing when to have the characters change rooms. If you were to put a piece of bread into your VCR, chances are good you'd enjoy the results more than Two Girls and a Guy.
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Writer/director James Toback's script is brimming with strangely suspicious coincidences, unbelievable occurrences, not to mention the down right unacceptable actions of the two girls in this film. Like Monica Lewinsky becoming athletic and attractive, Calvin & Hobbes being considered 'unfunny', and the Bears winning more than two games this season, the plot twists in Two Girls and a Guy just never will happen. I'm not sure if Toback wrote this screenplay as something he hopes would occur should he be caught in this situation, or whether something like this did happen to him, and he wanted to tack on a new ending to the whole sordid affair. I can't believe than any producers or studio executives could even glance at this mess and think to themselves, "Hey, forget about that adaptation of Michael Crichton's la