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June 5, 2000 |
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 The Movie Review Three
to Tango Social
satire is pouring out of Hollywood these days. So, soon after American
Beauty's look at the failing American family set-up, Stuart Little's
underlying comment on the larger family, here comes a take on the numerous
sexual identities that co-exist in the US. It's called Three to Tango. At
the centre of it all are two big stars of the small screen, the loveable
Matthew Perry who we know from Friends, and the bedroom-eyed Golden Globe
winner Dylan McDermott, who's the sexy, suave lawyer from The Practice.
Perry plays Oscar Novak, a blustering young architect in the running for
the Big Break -- a contract for a multi-million-dollar cultural centre for
Chicago tycoon Charles Newman (McDermott). To find favour with Newman,
Novak agrees to spy on his girlfriend Amy, an attractive, whacky artist,
played by the attractive, whacky Neve Campbell. That sets off a whole
chain of hilarious events, dominated by the rumour spread by Novak's
rivals that he is gay. The tale moves briskly and the film's largely
television crew manages to put together a good show. Perry and McDermott
radiate impressive big-screen charisma, while director Damon Santostefano,
who's done plenty of telefilms and teleseries in the past, proves that he
can work magic on a larger scale too. Lots of laughs, though sometimes the
film strains too hard to be cool about a sensitive subject.
-Natasha Israni
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