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Synopsis

This acclaimed documentary shows what happens when two gay men and their female lover decide to start a family.

Review

The story presented in Three of Hearts demonstrates that real life can be more unpredictable and engrossing than the juiciest fiction. While in college, fun-loving Sam Cagnina falls in love with the tall, dark, handsome, and occasionally petulant Steven Margolin. Years later, as an established couple in NYC they decide to bring a heterosexual woman into their relationship. Samantha Singh is vivacious, adventurous and beautiful. She enjoys the abundant sex and attention showered upon her by her two paramours. What starts off as an experiment evolves into a unorthodox family unit, readily accepted in the Big Apple. The guys continue their own relationship with her approval. Can it last?

Kaplan does a superb job illustrating what happens when their idyllic world becomes increasingly complicated as children, business responsibilities, and years of therapy begin to take their toll. The film contains both the tender intimate moments and painful episodes that unfold during an eight year period as Sam, Steven and Samantha come to terms with their individual dreams and sexual desires. Regardless of whether you're romantic or jaded, gay or straight, you will be surprised and deeply moved.

-- Jennifer Steinberg

Customer Reviews

Very Disappointed

Tkedude wrote on 02/26/2008:

Watched this movie recently......I started off with an open minded view of the movie but quickly found it to be one of the worst movies I
have ever watched in my life Totally unrealistic and just plain dumb.
I regret even waisting my time on this non-sense! Trust me....not worth your time.

Dishonest.

rtbd wrote on 02/09/2006:

I saw this film at the Miami International Film Festival in March of 2005 and found myself leaving the theatre feeling quite angry. I thought this was one of the most manipulative, dishonest excuses for a "documentary" I had ever seen. It painted an unconvincing picture of two happily married gay men who together decide something in missing in their otherwise happy relationship, so they invite a third person, a woman, to join them.

Through much of the newly configured triangular relationship it seems as if everything is fine in a ridiculously "Leave It To Beaver" sort of way. But, quite unexpectedly (or so it seems), one of the two gay men decides he has had enough and suddenly leaves the relationship. He offers no explanations, and he is quite nasty in his treatment of the other two. His leaving was my "aha" moment in the film because I never bought the work's cetral premise of everyone being so blissfully happy. I didn't buy it in the beginning of the story when just the two men were together, and I certainly didn't buy it when the woman entered the picture. I felt these were three of the most self-deluded people I had ever seen (particularly the balding man and the woman). In fact, the man who eventually left the relationship struck me as the healthiest one in the bunch. At least, in time, he realized that the ideal life he was told they were living was a bill of goods.

This is really poor filmmaking in my opinion because the filmmaker failed to interrogate the realities of the characters lives - she took the lazy way out and simply went along for the ride!