Taglines: Three wild hearts. One sexy romantic comedy.
Three of Hearts movie storyline. Joe Casella (William Baldwin) is a sweet-souled male escort in Manhattan who entertains a proposition with one of his clients, Connie (Kelly Lynch), a nurse who has just been ditched by her lover, Ellen (Sherilyn Fenn). Connie’s idea is that since most guys are crumb-bums, she’ll get Joe to woo Ellen and then break her heart so she’ll come running back to Connie.
Joe, who’s on the outs with a local tough guy, hides out in Connie’s apartment and gets on with business, showing up at a literature class Ellen teaches at NYU in an attempt to turn her googly-eyed. He wants to be teacher’s pet in the worst way. (Best of all, he’s only auditing, so no term papers.) Since Joe is basically a good sort–only slightly more wised up than Jon Voight’s hayseed hustler in “Midnight Cowboy”–his machinations with Ellen are bound to backfire. She’s an innocent too. Guess what happens?
Even though Connie’s ploy is desperately cruel, she’s also portrayed as a softie–she may strut around in leather jackets but, remember, she’s a nurse, a nurturer. (She plays out the latest movie cliche of watching home movies of her lost love–remember Michael Douglas in “Falling Down”?) So in a movie that’s set up for all sorts of psychosexual jujitsu, what we end up with is downy-soft sentiments.
Three of Hearts is a 1993 comedy / romance film directed by Yurek Bogayevicz and starring William Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Sherilyn Fenn, Joe Pantoliano, Gail Strickland, Claire Callaway, Marek Johnson, Gloria Gifford, Monique Mannen and Ann Ryerson.
Three of Hearts (1993)
Directed by: Yurek Bogayevicz
Starring: William Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Sherilyn Fenn, Joe Pantoliano, Gail Strickland, Claire Callaway, Marek Johnson, Gloria Gifford, Monique Mannen, Ann Ryerson
Screenplay by: Adam Greenman
Production Design by: Nelson Coates
Cinematography by: Andrzej Sekula
Film Editing by: Dennis M. Hill, Suzanne Hines
Costume Design by: Barbara Tfank
Set Decoration by: Linda Lee Sutton
Art Direction by: Doug Hall
Music by: Joe Jackson
MPAA Rating: R for strong language and sexuality.
Distributed by: New Line Cinema
Release Date: April 30, 1993
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