Premise - “After an unexpected threesome with a crush, a young man and the two women are left to deal with the sobering real-world consequences.”
Director - Chad Hartigan
Writer - Ethan Ogilby
Noteworthy cast - Zoey Deutch, Jonah Hauer-King, & Ruby Cruz
My thoughts - Absolutely everything I want in a movie. An adult drama with a top notch screen play, compelling central performances, assured direction, & the messiness of the modern world as the backdrop. I was like a kid in a candy shop for 112 minutes. You couldn’t smack the smile off my face.
It’s so rare that we get these kinds of movies at all that I get giddy when we actually do.
Easily the best rom-com of the year & instantly a contender for best of the decade.
Hartigan does such a wonderful job of not only subverting your expectations for what the story will be but also the genre as a whole. Don’t let the title fool you into not watching because you are afraid that it will be raunchy romp because it is the complete opposite. The inciting incident happens almost immediately & from there it morphs into a deep & sincere character study. With a title like ‘The Threesome’ you are immediately thinking sexy, but this one is much more interested in being sweet & tender (and the film is much better served by it).
Really smart script that sees each of its characters as actual humans and not just plot devices. You feel so deeply for each of them that it hurts. Zoey Deutch is already my rom-com queen, but I’m now fully on board with Jonah Hauer-King (aka mini Ryan Gosling) as well.
More movies like this please!
How did it do at the box office? - Still in theaters
Did it win any Oscars? - TBD
Where to watch - Currently in theaters!