Your Friends & Neighbors
United States
1998
100 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
Synopsis
Six characters, three men and three women, from a cross-section of social groups, play sexual power games. Jerry and Terri are married, but Jerry begins an affair with Mary, who is unsatisfied in her marriage to Barry. The affair sets off a chain of consequences for all the characters, including Terri falling for a woman, Cheri. Cary meanwhile, uses a variety of women sexually. –Inbaseline
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Neil LaBute
Neil LaBute is a writer, director, and playwright. His first film, In the Company of Men, debuted at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and won the dramatic Filmmakers Trophy. Nurse Betty (2000) screened at Cannes. LaBute has written plays that have been performed on stages around the world, including Bash: Latter Day Plays (2000), The Mercy Seat (2002), The Shape of Things (2003), and reasons to be pretty (2009), which was nominated for three Tony Awards. He is also the author of the short story collection Seconds of Pleasure. –Sundance
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Joe Godburn
2Mar12
Great actors playing horrendous people. Not sure what the point was. I'll tell you something else; it was no 'Death at a Funeral'
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Now on DVD: "Death at a Funeral" (Neil LaBute, 2010)
By Ben Sachs on August 14, 2010
Apart from two or three minutes near the beginning where the dialogue has been timed down to the nanosecond, you'd never guess that Neil LaBute
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what happened to neil labutte?
By Marcus WP on October 8, 2010
I needed to remind myself that neil labute was a really good director once (the late 90’s). Its like once he made “nurse betty” everything just kinda went downhill. He had a brief comeback with “the… read review
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