Film

Two Girls and a Guy

Name: Two Girls and a Guy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1998
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Heather Graham, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Angel David, Frederique van der Wal

A scrappy 1998 romantic comedy-drama where Robert Downey Jr. plays a duplicitous actor caught between two women who discover his infidelity and corner him in his apartment. It's chatty, theatrical, and deeply committed to the idea that betrayal is funny if everyone's smart enough about it. For people who like their relationship comedies with edge and a willingness to let characters be genuinely awful.

TMDb rating

2.6

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