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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Surround Sound, Spanish, French, Dubbed & Subtitled, Keep Case
Chad (Aaron Eckhart), furious about the way women are ruining his man's world, enlists his wishy-washy co-worker (Matt Malloy) in a callous plan to date then dump a vulnerable secretary (Stacy Edwards). Both horriying and hilarious, IN THE COMPANY OF MEN is "a brilliant black comedy... sure to be on of the best pictures of the year. This is a movie event."-Peter Travelers, Rolling Stone.
Editor's Note
In writer-director Neil LaBute's debut feature film, a pair of thirtysomething white-collar businessmen, embittered by their shallow lives and bad experiences with women, target and romance a beautiful deaf secretary (Stacy Edwards) solely for the purpose of dumping her and thus gaining revenge on her sex. While one of the junior execs, Chad (Aaron Eckhart), is relentlessly cold-blooded and cruel, his partner, Howard (Matt Malloy), proves to be a spineless tagalong. When their manipulative game ends, one of them is in for a shocking surprise.Touted as "the most controversial film of the year" upon its release in 1997, this articulate black comedy sparked a roiling storm of praise and loathing from critics and audiences alike. Eckhart, a college friend of LaBute's, became the primary lightning rod for these passionate, widely varying responses, winning an Independent Spirit Award for his performance while also fending off occasional verbal abuse from angry women mistaking him for the reptilian character he plays. The film unapologetically depicts appalling behavior but never condones Chad and Howard's actions, making it one of the most intriguing and memorable movies of the late 1990s.
| Features | Region 1 Encoding |
| Keep Case |
| Special Features: Interactive Menus, Theatrical Trailer, Director and Cast Commentaries, Scene Selections. |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 6/3/2008 |
| Running Time: 97 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 26019 | | UPC: 00043396260191 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew | Stacy Edwards | | Aaron Eckhart | | Matt Malloy | | Joel Plotch - Editor | | Tony Hettinger - Director of Photography | | Mark Archer - Producer | | Ken Williams - Composer | | Karel Roessingh - Composer | | Stephen Pevner - Producer | | Neil LaBute - Screenwriter | | Neil LaBute - Director |
| Memorable Quotes| "Let's hurt somebody."----Chad (Aaron Eckhart) to Howard (Matt Malloy) |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
"...Intelligent...wickedly funny..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 10/01/1999 p.104Sight and Sound
"..A radical, alternative and deeply disturbing feminist movie..." 02/01/1998 p.36-44 USA Today
"...A provocative dissection of human dynamics..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 07/31/1997 p.3D Film Comment
"...Remarkable....Its psychological conflation of sexual and professional frustration is astute..." 03/01/1997 Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] stunning, unsettling, beautifully written drama....LaBute lets poisons flow..." 08/01/1997 p.47 New York Times
"...Tremendously gutsy....A fascinating, divisive conversation piece..." 08/01/1997 p.C32 Los Angeles Times
"...It's convincingly acted, and writer-director LaBute has a gift for a certain kind of comic-scabrous dialogue as well as a sure idea of what he wants to accomplish..." 08/01/1997 p.F6 Chicago Sun-Times
"...IN THE COMPANY OF MEN is the kind of bold, uncompromising film that insists on being thought about afterward..." 08/15/1997 p.27 |
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