The film version is, essentially, a three-act play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Take] Reference

"Really, you're as good as a three-act farce," he cried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Father Brown Omnibus]

With nearly perfect three-act structure in every episode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Limping over the shark] Reference

Ms. EPSTEIN: Hagai did talk about it as a three-act play.    From Wordnik.com.  ['In Treatment' Writers Analyze The HBO Drama] Reference

CARVILLE: And, remember, this is Act One of a three-act play.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2008] Reference

Oh, you wanted some three-act plot structure with your movie?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference

Sometimes the effect will be a three-act style, sometimes not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Film Structure] Reference

It helps that the book has a Hollywood movie's three-act structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Internet-Free] Reference

And then of course I remembered that Importance is a three-act play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatic Theater] Reference

It was the easiest way into the movie business, the three-act structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plot Sickens] Reference

There is a rhythm to the three-act structure that feels almost biological.    From Wordnik.com.  [November 3rd, 2008] Reference

So I've been reading about how three-act stories break down, and I feel more sane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese government internet TV] Reference

Accordingly, Mr. Esbjornson fashioned a three-act structure with two intermissions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intermissions Take a Break] Reference

A highly physical three-act, this eccentric, narcissistic clan is at home in artifice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Royal Family, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Memphis] Reference

It was interesting, because it happened to fall into a classic three-act arc structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Balfour: Director Dan Stone Brings The Battle to Save The Whales to Us] Reference

Or simply the beginning-middle-end formula, which harkens back to that three-act thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Write A Fantasy Novel?] Reference

And she has recently been dancing a range of other 19th - and 20th-century three-act roles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballet in London: The Royal’s ‘Sylvia’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

His recovery begins when he quickly writes a three-act play called Soft White Kids in Leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"] Reference

So I devoted myself to the study of Plot: story structure, plot arcs, three-act structures, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing Question: Creating a Plot] Reference

Another girl Misty knew in art school, she performed a three-act play with puppets in her own mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary]

The drama, with its classic Aristotelian three-act form reassured us that good always triumphed over evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan Shepherd: Is TV Oversimplifying Our Reality?] Reference

But by then, I had already completed Romanoff andjuliet, a three-act play absolutely neoclassical in form.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography]

Though separated into three sections, The Etched City isn't based on any sort of traditional three-act form.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock] Reference

In it, he laid out how the traditional dramatic three-act structure applied to a roughly 120 page screenplay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-10-16] Reference

At this time her dramatic efforts began, and the three-act opera, "Die Göttin von Sais," was the first result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

My only complaint with the staging was the telescoping of Acts I and II of the three-act opera without an intermission.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pearl Fishers] Reference

The Bolshoi Ballet opened in swaggering style last night at the Coliseum with the full three-act version of Le Corsaire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

A basic form of a story that tells the truth without denigrating into propaganda or trite three-act play is the parable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Simpson: The Noetic Value of Fiction] Reference

Which can also be read as a set up followed by a three-act quest fantasy, albeit one that combines Mad Max scenarios with Ursula K.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

NPR's Claire O'Neill met up with one of them, Brian Strumke, and their journey turned into a three-act drama and a five-course meal.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Gypsy Brewer' Spreads Craft Beer Gospel] Reference

The old-fashioned three-act play used to be the most popular form, incidentally, with West End theater managements until the 1960's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic Theatre Travels Into Past, Present and Future] Reference

Then I had what seemed like a brainwave at the time: I'd make Pearl Harbour the equivalent of Act Two in a classical three-act structure.    From Wordnik.com.  ["No more wire coathangers!"] Reference