Synopses & Reviews
Your Friends & Neighbors is a searing display of the war between the sexes, delivered with the kind of wit used by the great Restoration playwrights to expose the hypocrisies in male/female relationships.
Neil Labute's debut feature, in the company of men, was described by Variety as "a dark, probing, truly disturbing exploration of yuppie angst and male anxieties". In Your Friends & Neighbors, male anxiety is again on show, but in a much wider context, revealing the rabid desire of people-regardless of sex- to serve their own interests at any cost.
Review
"The work of an original filmmaker who takes no prisoners." --Janet Maslin,
The New York Times"A brutally funny sex comedy." --Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Synopsis
In this screenplay for his second feature film -- which stars Ben Stiller, Jason Patric, Nastassja Kinski, Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, and Catherine Keener -- Neil LaBute, creator of last year's In the Company of Men, moves from the boardroom to the bedroom to deliver an incendiary commentary on modern mores. The intimacy between husbands and wives, between friends and neighbors, is explored ... and exploded.
From Cary, a handsome doctor for whom seduction is a game he is ruthless about winning, to Mary, an apparently happily married woman who inexplicably fails into a passionless affair with her husband's best friend, the characters in Your Friends and Neighbors seek the most basic human contact -- to connect with another person -- only to find that connection inextricably linked with sexual deceit and self-immolation.
Synopsis
"Your Friends & Neighbors "is a searing display of the war between the sexes, delivered with the kind of wit used by the great Restoration playwrights to expose the hypocrisies in male/female relationships.
Neil Labute's debut feature, "in the company of men," was described by "Variety "as" ""a dark, probing, truly disturbing exploration of yuppie angst and male anxieties." In "Your Friends & Neighbors," male anxiety is again on show, but in a much wider context, revealing the rabid desire of people-regardless of sex- to serve their own interests at any cost.
"Your Friends & Neighbors "is a searing display of the war between the sexes, delivered with the kind of wit used by the great Restoration playwrights to expose the hypocrisies in male/female relationships.
Neil Labute's debut feature, "in the company of men," was described by "Variety "as" ""a dark, probing, truly disturbing exploration of yuppie angst and male anxieties." In "Your Friends & Neighbors," male anxiety is again on show, but in a much wider context, revealing the rabid desire of people-regardless of sex- to serve their own interests at any cost.
About the Author
Neil LaBute lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana.