The Maverick Movie -- Bandit Threesomes

We watched the 1994 movie Maverick last night. Steve Rhodes begins his review of the show this way --

Hollywood finds a surefire recipe for success. Take a legendary TV show and remake it as movie with today's heartthrob (Mel Gibson) as the lead (Maverick). Cast the original actor (James Garner) as a costar (playing a lawman). For love interest, spend more big bucks and get Jodie Foster as a competing gambler and possible lover for Maverick. Film it with sweeping cinematography by an Academy Award winner (Vilmos Zsigmond). Finally, get the Lethal Weapons director (Richard Donner) to direct it. The result has to be a MAVERICK that is a monster hit.

What hit us was that the movie is an assembly of familiar subplots, one of which is the gradual formation of a threesome between the hero, the lawman, and the lady, who is intimate with both of them [sorry to spoil the ending, but this is only one of many subplots].

This is a familiar theme to us -- one bandita sharing her life with two banditos. Follow our Movies link and you'll find Bandits, starring Bruce Willis, Billie Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett, a bored housewife who shares her life (and her body) with both bandits. Or how about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Etta Place, based on a true story of a menage a trois?

The moral of these stories seems to be "For an adventurous woman, one man is not enough." See you at the movies!