Three to Tango

Plot synopsis:
Architects Oscar Novak (Perry) and Peter Steinberg (Platt) have just landed a career-making opportunity to design of a multimillion dollar cultural center for wealthy businessman Charles Newman (McDermott). In a ploy for publicity, Newman has pitched Oscar and Peter in a neck-and-neck competition with their archrivals and former colleagues, the hugely successful Decker and Strauss (Bob Balaban and John C. McGinley). When Newman meets Oscar and Peter, he assumes that they are lovers, even though Oscar is straight. (Peter is in fact gay, but his relationship with Oscar is strictly platonic.) Under the mistaken impression that Oscar is gay, he asks Oscar to keep an eye on his mistress Amy (Campbell) and make sure that she doesn't talk to his wife. Oscar falls for Amy virtually on sight, but she thinks he's gay. He is forced to maintain the charade to avoid getting into trouble with Newman, and losing the commission.
Matters become complicated when a news article about Oscar and Peter's supposed relationship is published in a newspaper, leaving Oscar in the increasingly frustrating position of having to fend off advances from various gay men while convincing his friends and family that he is simply pretending to be gay. Amy even sets him up on a date with her ex-boyfriend, football player Kevin Cartwright (Cylk Cozart), but Oscar manages to defuse the situation by saying that he's in love with someone else. Despite the embarrassing misconceptions, Oscar forms a close bond with Amy as they continue to spend time together-to the extent that Amy moves in with him after she is kicked out of her apartment. At the final presentation for the cultural center, Oscar and Peter receive the commission, but Oscar is simultaneously told that he has won the award for Gay Professional Man of the Year, with Newman deciding that he will reveal his decision after the ceremony.
After an awkward meeting between Amy and Newman's wife at the party, she and Oscar go to a bar. Amy leaves in frustration after she nearly kisses him, prompting a brief argument between her and Oscar where Oscar states that her relationship with Newman has no future. After spending the day alone, Oscar attends the award ceremony for Gay Professional Man of the Year. Although he initially continues his charade, while looking out at the people before him, he instead makes a passionate speech about how he admires all the men and women here who were able to tell the truth to their families about how they feel, ending the speech by "coming out of the closet" as he admits that he's straight and in love with Amy. As he is applauded for having the courage to admit the truth, he runs after Amy, only for her to punch both him and Newman and storming out. Peter then awkwardly accepts the prize that comes with the award: a date with Kevin. However, as Oscar sits in a restaurant where he and Amy ate together on the night they met, Amy comes to see him. She says that she loves him too, and they kiss.
In a post-credit sequence, Newman's wife Olivia (Kelly Rowan) convinces him to go with Oscar and Peter's design, revealing that she knew about him and Amy and informing him bluntly that Oscar and Peter did the better job.

Tags: romantic

Review:
When the businessman also asks Oscar to keep an eye on his mistress, believing nothing can go wrong since Oscar is "gay", things start to go really wrong, creating a lot of painful but often funny situations...I guess the fans of the sitcom "Friends" will love this movie.
I predicted it would be a second rate comedy, cheesy, hardly any romance at all, and just was unworthy of my time, even though I was eager to see the wonderful Neve Campbell who I always enjoy in movies and thought that it could not be horrible, hopefully somewhat entertaining.
What made the film work was how believable Matthew Perry is as gay, something he suffers from in Friends as well.
Matthew Perry and Neve Campbell have chemistry and Oliver Platt was fun as Matthew's friend.
Matthew Perry's Oscar isn't very different from Chandler Bing, yet he manages to stay funny as hell and never get on our nerves.
It's a film in parts.But some of the parts are downright funny.Matthew Perry (Friends) plays Oscar an architect who with his gay partner Peter (Oliver Platt , Funny Bones) are after a contract to build some swank building for slime ball rich guy Charles (Dylan McDermott).Charles is two timing his wife with Amy (Neve Campbell, Scream) and thinking that Oscar is gay like Peter, Charles asks Oscar to baby sit Amy because he's fearful of Amy running off with an old boyfriend of hers.
These days its common to have the comical gay friend or two mincing about in mainstream films (As Good As It Gets, Beverley Hills Cop and many others).These personalties are added almost strictly for laughs and they are sometimes genuinely amusing but a good dose of homophopia is necessary to really enjoy Three To Tango.Those not inclined to hate those "batting for the other side" will be a bit under awed by many of the scenes in this film but there's nothing new about that.Still these sorts of movies may well be seen to be an important step in the true "coming out" of this minority group on the big screen.
But she has successfully transcended that sort of typecasting in this film.Her hair is cut shorter and she's determinably bubbly, very different to the haunted, hunted character she plays in the Scream films.Mathew Perry like Campbell is very likeable in what is sometimes an awkward comedy romance, with a gay fear subplot.But overwhelmingly, Three To Tango is often played strictly for fun.
Neve Campbell put on one heck of a performance considering she does not normaly play this sort of role and Matthew Perry was the heart and soul of the movie.
Both Neve Campbell and Matthew Perry were believable in their respective roles.
I mean, usually most romantic comedies are way too mushy and when they're over, you kinda think, 'That was IT?' But in Three to Tango, from the opening credits to the little scenes which appear with the ending credits, it is HILARIOUS!
Matthew Perry and Neve Campbell had great chemistry, and did their scenes well, and Oliver Platt was hilarious.
Sure, there are some moments in the script where it doesn't quite work as well as one would like, but the other things make up for its little flaws.I thought Three to Tango was a great film, and I'm going to see it again.
The jokes he does in "Three To Tango (and the rest of his newer movies)are all so similar to his sitcom character it's kind of sad seeing one of the funniest men (and my personal favorite "Friend"-well, at least until he marries Monica) be so uninventive and unexperimental with his definite acting abilities.
Nice, kind of funny(you probably won't find yourself laughing out loud very often, just smiling in your mind as the movie goes along) and who can forget-romantic.
I missed the scathing and usually-hilarious Oliver Platt, his role seemed a mere supporting throw-away, it could have been played by anyone, but it was nice to see him do something different.Dylan McDermott does what he does best: irritating slime ball.
I never quite believe him when he plays a good guy, and its much more fun to love to hate him anyway.Yes the film has a message too, but they don't hit you over the head with it.
For some reason when I picked up this movie for 99c on ebay, I assumed it would be one of those sexually-charged, ménage-à-trois, gender-bender flicks that populated the late 90s like "Chasing Amy" or even Neve Campbell's own "Wild Things".
Or if you really want to get back to the roots of the mistaken-sexual-identity sex comedy, Willilam Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" (1602).It's best to know nothing about the plot, that way the twists and turns are more of a hilarious surprise.
But yes, the story centers around a classic case of mistaken sexual identity, and from there the hijinks ensue.What's exceptional about this movie is that it does a great job of reversing roles, not just for the individual characters but for society as a whole.
And much like Kafka's story, the comedy lies in the absurdity of people's reactions, even though nothing has changed except for their perception of the main character.Yeah that's a lot of heady gobbledygook, so let's just talk about the movie already.
Applause for Neve Campbell, Matthew Perry and Dylan McDermott (and director Damon Santostefano) for giving us these powerful yet subtle performances that aren't necessarily as thunderous as George C.
Of course with it being Matthew Perry from Friends fame, a lot of his delivery is in that deadpan sarcastic "Chandler" vein with Neve Campbell being the perfect spunky counterpart.
Also, Oliver Platt and half a dozen other minor characters also did a great job.Definitely catch this movie if you get the chance, whether or not you find it for 99c on eBay, it's worth your time..
This film has humour, it has heart - what more could you want from a romantic comedy?Matthew Perry puts in another Chandler style performance but really isn't this the type of role we just love to see Perry in.
Playing the sarcastic, goofy guy served him well enough for 10 years on Friends but here we get to see another version of that character.Neve Campbell is very cute in this film and has great comedic ability as well as great chemistry with Perry.
Hilarious in every scene he's in and him and Perry make a good double act.Overall ignore the negative reviews and just take this film for what it is - a hilarious romantic comedy that has a great cast and a unique premise.
The jokes are fairly imaginative and sometimes ingenious, and the plot does have a twist or two plus a little cuteness to make it a good film to watch.Matthew Perry plays his Chandler-esque role from the TV sitcom, Friends, this time as an architect (like the TV show we don't actually see him do any work!), and gives a satisfying performance (strange way of describing it, but it is what you really do feel).
Neve Campbell adds to the cuteness of it and all in all it is a fairly decent film.If you are a fan of Matthew Perry, this is probably his best attempt on the big screen, though I'd bet others might disagree.
Yes, every penny of it.Matthew Perry is hilarious in this romantic comedy and with Neve Campbell as his love interest, makes it enjoyable viewing.
It's put to us as a fun loving romantic comedy with a Happy Ever After at the end, so if you don't like the sound of it - don't watch it!
Let's hope he can get his life back on track at last, staying away from his unhealthy habits.I hadn't heard of Neve Campbell before seeing this movie, but I think she does a good job here.
Dylan McDermott plays a mean tycoon.I won't get into discussing if the plot is predictable, believable or if Perry and Campbell are great together - I'm not interested in that.
Great casting with Matthew Perry, Dylan McDermott, and Neve Campbell.
Matthew Perry (my favorite actor) showed much more subtlety and charisma as Oscar than in his first romantic comedy (Fools Rush In).
Dylan McDermott and Oliver Platt were also fine.Being a big band fan, I have to say that the soundtrack was great, and I liked how they highlighted one of the bands in the closing credits (something different)!Overall, a fun night at the movies!
The film starts going when Oscar(Perry) starts to spy on Amy(Campbell) this starts a very funny chain of events and has a lot of scenes which show off Perrys undeniabile comic talents.The jokes come thick and fast and is more funny then most comedies around today(eg Meet The Parents).Perry is fabulous as always and he should quit friends NOW to concentrate on what i think on a successful movie career..
Matthew Perry is absoultely superb in everything he does and if he isnt a massive movie star by the time friends finishes something definitely went wrong.The film is hillarious but suffers in the same was as the whole nine yards because in both movies the opening 20 mins of both films they just arent funny.
Eventually love prevails (no spoiler here, no-one on the planet could watch this movie and think they wouldn't get together), but not before numerous mistaken gender orientation gags run their course.This film was obviously presented from a gay perspective as a satire on homophobia.
This probably explains why this film was more well received by women than men, since much the comedy really mocked straight men and their fear of homosexuality.Matthew Perry has made a career out of playing hapless losers with the appeal being that it's funny to see someone who is even more woefully inept than the average viewer.
It is difficult for an actor to slip into the skin of an absurdity and know exactly how to play it.The best acting in the film came from Oliver Platt, who played Oscar Novak's business partner.
"Three to Tango" has some great slapstick and some amusing performances but two huge problems stop the film in its tracks.Not knowing Matthew Perry from anything other than his "I Love Lucy"-in-reverse comedy "Fools Rush In," which was cute and easy on the brain, I had no expectations of any kind when I attended a sneak preview.
I knew that "Three to Tango" had something to do with fake gay-ness and that it had been compared to "In and Out," a film which I thought was only okay.So I laughed while Perry fell over things and at the other well-timed slapstick comedy, but I kept trying to grapple with a lack of believability.
Suspension of disbelief is so rarely demanded in romantic comedies, but here I was expected to swallow that a young, beautiful, strong, intelligent modern artist character (Neve Campbell) would accept being the MISTRESS of a snake-like rich guy!
And of course, after the one token gay guy jumps up to applaud, the camera only shows us the other heteros in the audience who are so relieved (or disturbed) by this news.As a gay woman, I can usually step out of myself enough to enjoy any kind of well-made film, including romantic comedies about straight people.
Oscar Novak (Matthew Perry) and Peter Steinberg (Oliver Platt) are architects pitching a cultural center for tycoon Charles Newman (Dylan McDermott).
Not a great comedy but a pretty good sweet romantic movie..
Also the standard bittersweet ending doesn't help much to this.Matthew Perry isn't good enough to carry this movie.
Perry and Campbell make a cute couple, and by the time the big band blasts out the end credits, the situations have been resolved, people have been paired off, and certain of the characters get to live happily ever after.
This has got to be one of the best films i have ever seen.Oscar (Matthew Perry) and Peter (Oliver Platt) are a two-man architectural team.
To his horror - and that of his straight friends - Oscar actually becomes the most famous gay man in the city.Matthew Perry is just wicked in this film and plays Oscar so well, he has a brilliant movie career ahead of him..
Except for a pair of glasses, Matthew Perry plays exactly the same role as he does on Friends -- a neurotic but well-meaning guy who has trouble with women and seems gay but isn't.I like Friends a lot and I liked this movie.
Neve Campbell and Matthew Perry have great chemistry.
Oscar Novak (Matthew Perry) is a really fun character - somewhat similar to Chandler Bing, yet different enough to make it new.
Besides the physical scenes of Matthew Perry there are great one-liners and just too funny moments when Oscar is mistaken as gay.
Matthew Perry and Neve Campbell have great chemistry together and all in one I had a wonderful time watching this movie.
This story is pretty simple, the acting is good enough for a movie of this caliber and the humour is often well-timed and extremely funny.
Matthew Perry shows he is much more than a situation comedy actor and Neve Campbell is an actress who knows her business and is very easy on the eyes.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you crossed Matthew Perry's TV show (Friends) and Neve Campbell's TV show (Party of Five), throwing in a little dash of  Dylan MacDermott's TV show (The Practice)?
It can be funny at times, there is obvious chemistry between Perry and Campbell (two Canadians in the leads, when was the last time you saw that in an American movie), and it has a good plot.
"Friends" star Matthew Perry is also great, even though he acts a lot like Chandler Bing.Rent this film, you will not be disappointed..
I enjoyed Three to Tango because it was a good, funny and zany comedy that's not meant to be Oscar-worthy or even critics-worthy but it is a fun movie to watch nonetheless.I think Matthew Perry was excellent, he is as usual, funny and uses his comic timing skills with good force.
There is no doubt that Perry was the full force of this movie and even though the director and editor could've done a better job editing and putting the film together, it is still worth watching in my opinion.
Neve Campbell is convincing, and Dylan McDermott is average.I think that this movies saving grace, Matthew Perry, may be its biggest fault.
Perry's role is not dissimilar to Chandler in Friends, and I kept expecting an "_Oh_ _my_ GOD!" from Janice at any moment.All in all though, a funny movie, and very entertaining..
Dylan McDermott plays a stuck up, spoiled business man who hires Matthew Perry to keep an eye on his mistress, Neve Campbell, mistakenly thinking he's gay.
Matthew Perry was hilarious in this movie, with his usual wry wit seen on "Friends." If you are in the mood for a funny, original romantic comedy, see "Three to Tango".
Matthew Perry continues to show me that he indeed is the real deal amongst the "Friends" cast.I thought Neve Campbell excellently played a charming and fun part.
But anyways aside from all that Matthew Perry was really funny as usual and Neve Campell was great, she should do movies more often.
This romantic comedy is really good and definately worth watching and buying.Matthew Perry and Neve Campbell acting is brilliant.
Three To Tango is a funny, romantic, comedy starring Matthew Perry,Neve Campbell and Dylan McDermott.
The movie is a bit of a silly, with a strange story, and even though you know who's going to end up with who straight away, this is still a fun, lightweight comedy and it's even better with the two great leads, Perry and Campbell..
Matthew Perry is hysterical, Neve Campbell is amazing, and Oliver Platt is the man!
This movie has all the elements that make it the perfect romantic comedy, from the oh so funny twist, Matthew Perry is gay?, to the finale where everybody gets what they want.
If you love Matthew Perry on "Friends" you should love him in this movie!
There are some very funny moments especially when Matthew Perry and Oliver Platt are together.
He plays the character with warmth and wit making him instantly lovable.Campbell is also good and McDermott makes a wonderful love-to-hate bad guy.I was amazed when i watched this film for the first time as the clip shows some of the Worst clips not the best!
Regardless of the name of the film, or the content - it had Neve Campbell in it; so I went to see it.It was actually not a bad film as well as the lovely Neve, Matthew Perry wasn't anywhere near as annoying and unfunny as he usually is, and the storyline developed well towards what was always going to be a predictable end.Worth seeing; I did actually enjoy it..
I rented this movie because I love Matthew Perry.
I can't actually believe that this comedy has so low rating...who are these people without a sense of humor and how can anyone not love Friends and Three to Tango with so many funny scenes?
and that is why I'm such a big fan!Overall, I loved it, and it was nice to see Matthew Perry in a movie, rather than on TV!
Three to Tango (1999) Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott, Oliver Platt, Bob Balaban, John C.
Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott and Oliver Platt.
There's a scene in "Three to Tango" in which the two leads, Neve Campbell and Matthew Perry, are platonically (Well, she is, he really isn't..)..
Maybe he could pull of the character of Oscar better than Perry.Other than for Neve And Oliver, The movie really comes off as a bad throw back to the Doris Day romantic Comedies, but with out the charm.