It’s a common belief – at least among women – that every man’s fantasy is to have sex with two (or more) women at the same time.  Lane Janger’s Just One Time is a film that focuses on that popular myth and, more importantly, ways women can prevent their men from begging them for it.

Anthony (Janger) is a burly New York City firefighter who, in ten days, is getting married to a down-to-earth attorney named Amy (Joelle Carter, High Fidelity).  Although Anthony is madly in love with his fiancée, he constantly pesters her to make his one dream come true – hot three-way sex with another woman.  Because he’s Catholic, Anthony feels his fantasy needs to happen before they get married, so the couple won’t be breaking their wedding vows.

Amy finally agrees, but only after she gets Anthony to promise to make her fantasy come true as well.  Stupidly, he quickly agrees to her condition, and even swears on his mother to seal the deal.  After he jubilantly tells his co-workers, Time shows a decent montage of Anthony shopping and preparing for the evening’s activities.  When the time comes to introduce the new body into their sexual routine, he is shocked to find out that Amy has brought home Victor (Guillermo Díaz, In Too Deep), a neighborhood boy with a huge crush on Anthony.  She tells Anthony that it’s her fantasy to have sex with him and another man.

Because he swore on his mother, Anthony has no choice to carry out his end of the bargain.  While he gets out of having sex that evening, Anthony reluctantly agrees to go on a series of dates with Victor so they can get to know each other before the big evening.  Anthony drags three of his homophobic co-workers along to join himself and Victor at a popular gay bar.  Strangely, Anthony’s friends quickly acclimate themselves to the different surroundings.

In the meantime, Amy begins to research lesbianism to get ready for her impending threesome.  She befriends a butch carpenter (Jennifer Esposito, Summer of Sam) from across the street, and the two seem to hit it off quite quickly.  Too quickly, if you ask Anthony, who becomes insanely jealous of the relationship into which he forced Amy.  And because of the loud squabbling coming from their tiny studio apartment, the entire neighborhood knows what’s going on.

Based on an eight-minute short Janger made in 1997 (it also featured Carter, Diaz and Esposito), Time contains some very well-written dialogue (there’s a pretty funny set piece involving the sampling food for Anthony and Amy’s wedding reception) and even better direction. Janger, who produced I Like it Like That, co-wrote the script with Jennifer Vandever, who penned the girl scenes, while Janger tackled the guy scenes.  There’s a “surprise” at the end that you can see coming from a mile away, but Time is still a very enjoyable film that should entertain a wide demographic of movie fans.

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