Rating: R
Genre:
Romance
Release Date: 05/04/2004
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS/DTS
Run Time: 100 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
A new '90s expressiveness regarding homosexuality in movies is gently mined for laughs in this 1993
comedy that predates the similar but much more raw
Chasing Amy and slightly more humorous
Threesome. With her straight greasy hair, semi-paranoid outlook, and leather jacket she wears like a shield,
Connie (
Kelly Lynch) already seems a bit unhinged. Then her girlfriend,
Ellen (
Sherilyn Fenn), breaks up their relationship and
Connie loses it. In her grief, she hits upon a bizarre plan: Why not hire male prostitute
Joe (
William Baldwin) to seduce
Ellen, then break her heart? Wouldn't that make
Ellen rush back into
Connie's arms? Of course not. For one thing,
Joe's life is complicated by his protective yet sinister pimp (
Joe Pantoliano) and a thug who mistakenly believes
Joe set him up for a prison sentence. And
Joe and
Ellen fall in love. Yet an odd, sibling-like friendship develops between
Joe and
Connie that steers them through the repercussions of
Ellen's discovery of their deceit, the thug's attack on
Joe, and
Joe's desire to give up prostitution. By the story's end, they've lost
Ellen, but they have one another, and have learned to step beyond the protective relationships they have lost.
Three of Hearts solidified
William Baldwin's ascent to leading-man status (along with brothers
Stephen and
Alec) after 1991's
Backdraft.
~ Nick Sambides, Jr., All Movie Guide
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