Three to Tango
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| Three to Tango | |
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| Directed by | Damon Santostefano |
| Produced by | Lawrence Abramson Bruce Berman John M. Eckert Robert F. Newmyer Susan E. Novick Keri Selig Jeffrey Silver Bettina Sofia Viviano |
| Written by | Rodney Patrick Vaccaro |
| Starring | Matthew Perry Neve Campbell Dylan McDermott Oliver Platt Cylk Cozart |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | October 22, 1999 |
| Running time | 98 min. |
| Language | English |
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Three to Tango is a 1999 romantic comedy film starring Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott and Oliver Platt.
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[edit] Plot
Oscar Novak (Perry), an aspiring architect and his business partner, Peter Steinberg (Platt), have just landed a career-making opportunity with a Chicago tycoon Charles Newman (McDermott) who has chosen them to compete for the design of a multi-million dollar cultural center. 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 (and equally ruthless) Decker and Strauss. Though in a comic twist Oscar is mistaken for a gay man when meeting with Charles Newman. Under the mistaken impression that Oscar is homosexual, and therefore a safe companion for his girlfriend Amy (Campbell), he asks Oscar to keep an eye on her for him. Naturally, Oscar falls for Amy virtually on sight, but she thinks he's gay and thus he is forced to maintain the charade of being gay to avoid getting into trouble with Newman, and losing the commission.
Tagline - All's fair in the war of love
[edit] Cast and Characters
[edit] Main characters
- Matthew Perry - Oscar Novak
- Neve Campbell - Amy Post
- Dylan McDermott - Charles Newman
- Oliver Platt - Peter Steinberg
- Cylk Cozart - Kevin Cartwright
[edit] Other characters
- John C. McGinley - Strauss
- Bob Balaban - Decker
- Deborah Rush - Lenore
- Kelly Rowan - Olivia Newman
- Rick Gomez - Rick
- Patrick Van Horn - Zack
- David Ramsey - Bill
- Barbara Gordon - Jenny Novak
- Roger Dunn - Edward Novak
[edit] Trivia
- When Matthew Perry first goes to Amy's apartment, she asks him "Are you always this nervous?" This is the same question 'Bruce Willis (I)' asks him when they first go for a car ride in The Whole Nine Yards (2000). Both times the response is "yes."
- Perry's portrayal of Novak has been described as "Chandler becomes an architect".
- In both Friends and Three to Tango, Perry's character is mistaken for a homosexual.
- This is Neve Campbell's second time working with a cast member from Friends. Her first was with Courteney Cox in the Scream Trilogy.
- Matthew Perry was offered a script like this earlier in his career, but he found it to lack character depth.
