page_title: Three in the Attic
section_title: Critical
hierarchical_section_title: Three in the Attic / Response / Critical
caption_attribution_description: English: South Building facing Cameron Avenue at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
context_page_description: Three in the Attic is a 1968 comedy film directed by Richard Wilson and starring Christopher Jones and Yvette Mimieux, with Judy Pace and Maggie Thrett. Nan Martin, John Beck, and Eve McVeagh appear in supporting roles. Jones plays Paxton Quigley, a lothario who swears his fidelity to all three of the women he is dating, each of whom is unaware of his deception. When they learn the truth about Paxton, the women lure him into a college dormitory attic, where they each take turns attacking Paxton sexually in order to punish him.
context_section_description: Three in the Attic was released to mixed reviews.  Roger Ebert gave the film two stars, claiming the film was unable to live up to its promising concept.  Ebert did single out Judy Pace's Eulice as one of the film's few highlights.
  Variety gave the movie a very poor review, noting that even writer Stephen Yafa disowned the picture.  Their review claims the film was harmed by amateurish acting, "littered with padding optical effects, hampered by uneven dramatic concept, and redundant in its too-delicious sex teasing."
  Vincent Canby of the New York Times called the film:
  More raunchy and less funny than any other AIP film I've seen. It's a fantasizing projection of dearly held contemporary myths about romance, sex, humour, ethics, aesthetics, art and movies. In its eclectic way, it's also in bad taste on an almost staggering number of levels. Wit: "non-swimmers shouldn't jump bare ---- into the sea of love." Incidental decor: a jock strap hanging permanently over a screen in Paxton's pad. Style: a mixed up anthology of jump cuts, Resnais-like memory cuts, blown- up still photographs all backed up by neo-Simon and Garfunkel. Preliminary box office statistics indicate that its going to be a smash hit.
caption: The South Building as seen from Cameron Avenue in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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