REEL LIFE / FILM & VIDEO FILE : ‘Threesome’ Evokes Hostile Response : Witnesses say homophobic insults were shouted during the movie, which revolves around a love ‘triangle’ among two men and a woman.

Homophobes in the audience at the Mann Buenaventura were scandalized at a recent showing of “Threesome.”

The sexual coming-of-age movie that one reviewer described as “Three’s Company” with a case of hot monkey love, revolves around three college students, two men and a woman, involved in a love triangle.

This triangle is truly an equilateral one. He’s hot for her. She’s hot for the other, but the other is hot for him.

Josh Charles plays the role of Eddy, a sensitive young man, which in the Hollywood parlance generally equates to sexual confusion. His question mark comes in the form of Stephen Baldwin, who plays a jock with a crush on their female roommate, Lara Flynn Boyle.

Witnesses said that 20 minutes into the film several male audience members started yelling “homo” and “fag” and, although there is no man-on-man sex in the film, one butt-grab sent some outraged male viewers cussing and fuming from the theater.

With about 15 minutes left in the film, one man, unable to retain a tolerant attitude any longer, reportedly sprang from his chair saying, “Oh my God, I can’t stand this anymore” and bolted.

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“Indochine” is the Vietnam film Oliver Stone would have made if he were in touch with his feminine side.

The story of a French colonial plantation owner in Southeast Asia is a woman’s picture in the way “Gone With the Wind” was a woman’s picture. Both have strong female characters who personify the decline of a system that’s luxurious for a few, while cruel to the many.

Catherine Deneuve plays the plantation owner who lives in a Maugham-esque colonial paradise during a time of growing anti-colonial spirit. The film builds as the fate of an increasingly strife-torn country becomes intertwined with the personas of Deneuve and her adopted Vietnamese daughter, who are in love with the same man.

The Ojai Film Society is featuring “Indochine” as its Sunday film. The screening is set for 4:30 p.m. at the Ojai Playhouse, 145 E. Ojai Ave. Admission is $6.

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Century Theaters are screening an advertisement for mature audiences only.

The chain’s Century 8 Theater is playing a political ad for Frank Navarette, a candidate hoping to win a seat on the state Board of Equalization, a little-known body that sets tax policy.

Theater management, always obsessive about its image even as it shows films cheapening sex and exalting violence, was almost apologetic about the novel ad placement.

“As an equal access media, we can’t turn anybody down,” pleaded Century Media Advertisement Manager Alex Gorovitz. “The only restriction is we can’t put on anything that is not compatible with family entertainment. Alcohol, tobacco or anything that’s not morally right.”

We’ll forgo the easy pick on the morality of elected officials and instead point out that, because of adult subject matter, the 26th Amendment to the Constitution made voting an NC-18 activity and therefore unsuitable for general admission.