Threesome
1994
This really could have been just another throwaway teen movie about a bunch of college students trying to find their way in life, but it wasn’t. And it’s not just because one of the three roommates is a gay man.
The triangle is a fairly predictable one: The girl is in love with the gay guy, who is in love with the straight guy, who is in love with the girl. So far, other than its sympathetic characterization of the gay guy, which by 1994 was not really that earth-shattering, there was nothing new here.
And then they end up in bed together, where it’s made absolutely clear to the audience that the two men have sex together as well as with the woman, and not in the standard “the girl is in the middle and the guys don’t touch” way. The straight guy very deliberately takes the gay guy’s hand during sex and puts it on his leg.
The film stars a young Lara Flynn Boyle as the girl, a young Josh Charles as the gay guy, and a young Stephen Baldwin (who later became a right-wing Republican and disavowed the role) as the straight guy. In a sign of things to come, none of the characters ends up dead or even unhappy, they all treat each other as equals, the girl was clearly in charge of her own sexual destiny, and everyone involved with the film went on to be successfull in the industry.
Hotness: 6
Romance: 6
Significance: 10
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