| | | A modern immorality tale.
Features: DVD
Three couples. A dozen relationships. A million problems. One of the most talked about comedies of the season, Your Friends & Neighbors is the story of six people who can't seem to stay out of each others' lives or each others' bedrooms. Six of today's hottest young celebrities star in a film critics raved about. If you enjoy passion, lust, sexuality, and lighthearted humor, this is your circle of friends.
"Brilliant. Fascinating. Shamefully irresistible." Premiere
"A brutally funny sex comedy." Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
Neil LaBute's second film, YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS, is a dark comedy of manners that follows two unhappy couples and their single friends through a series of emotional and physical entanglements. Barry (Aaron Eckhart) and Mary (Amy Brenneman) are a married couple plagued by sexual frustration. Their friend Jerry (Ben Stiller), a theater professor, lives with his girlfriend, Terri (Catherine Keener), who's sick of his endless bedroom banter. Added to the fold are Cary (Jason Patric), a narcissistic, womanizing doctor, and Cheri (Nastassja Kinski), a free-spirited gallery assistant. While Jerry hopes to have an affair with Mary, Terri strikes up a relationship with Cheri, leading to a host of humorously painful conflicts.Cleverly framed by scenes in which each character examines the same painting in Cheri's gallery, the film presents an unflinchingly harsh look at relationships. More than anything else, it pinpoints--with hilarious effect--the human inability to communicate. Perfectly cast and expertly acted, YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS furthers LaBute's reputation as a challengingly original filmmaker.
Plot Summary
Restlessness, doubt, and regret are the main characters in this talker about a husband and wife, an unmarried couple, and a few assorted singles. The otherwise successful city-dwellers stumble through a variety of ill-fated relationships, awkward infidelities, and lengthy conversations.
| Features | Subtitles: French, English | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Surround | | Feature Commentary With Director Neil LaBute And Producer Steve Golin | | Cast & Filmmakers | | Theatrical Trailer |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 8/24/2004 |
| Running Time: 101 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1998 | | Catalog ID: 23798 | | UPC: 00025192379826 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1/4:3 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...The quality of the cast and LaBute's hilariously savage touches make this movie well worth seeing." 09/??/1998 p.48Rolling Stone
"...LaBute achieves a bracing originality....The actors are flat-out wonderful, biting eagerly into juicy roles..." 09/03/1998 p.107-8 Entertainment Weekly
"...Bleak, scathing, and utterly compelling....Mesmerizingly miserable..." -- Rating: A 09/18/1998 p.63 New York Times
"...It sustains a psychic ferocity that commands attention..." 08/19/1998 p.E1 Box Office
"...Neil LaBute is a ferociously talented filmmaker....An awfully funny film, and it features scathingly intelligent dialogue delivered by a talented cast..." 08/01/1998 p.44 San Francisco Examiner 7 of 10
Once you've seen Your Friends and Neighbors, the title gives you a pretty good idea of what writer-director Neil LaBute thinks of his fellow men and women. Not much, given that every character, save one, in this movie is an unadulterated creep, and that several of them are downright repulsive. Not only that, but as the title implies, they're just like you and me... The acting and writing is a cut above the ordinary and while there are many funny moments, the movie is mostly a horror story about people who seem genetically incapable of happiness and are trying to live their lives as if happiness were possible. The tension between the fantasy of satisfaction and the reality of desolation poses an enthralling dramatic situation. - Barbara Shulgasser
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