Cruel, cool and pleasingly provocative.
Comment
02/09/06
In the Company of Men (1997)
88 %
Reviews Counted: 52 Fresh: 46 Rotten:6 Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, Stacy Edwards
Director: Neil LaBute
Screenwriter: Neil LaBute
Producer: Mark Archer, Stephen Pevner
Composer: Ken Williams, Karel Roessingh
Screenwriter: Neil LaBute
Producer: Mark Archer, Stephen Pevner
Composer: Ken Williams, Karel Roessingh
Reviews
Top Critic
A disturbing, well observed screen debut from director LaBute, while the three central performances are spot on.
01/01/00
Top Critic
LaBute's film is not easy to watch, deal with or understand. But its effect is unmistakable.
01/01/00
A dazzling, repellent exercise in which the case against men is closed before it's opened.
02/11/08
LaBute, a playwright and former drama teacher, has succeeded in creating a study of banal, everyday evil.
02/11/08
A bitterly promising screenwriting-directing debut from playwright Neil LaBute.
02/11/08
A dark, probing, truly disturbing exploration of yuppie angst and male anxieties as they manifest themselves in both the work and personal arenas.
02/11/08
Top Critic
A highlight of the 97 Sundance Film Fest, LaBute's astonishing debut is a dark, probing, vastly entertaining satire about misogyny and sexual politics in the work as well as personal arena; LaBute is a major dialoguist to watch
10/25/06
I don't what finding humor in the most unsavory of situations says about me, but in terms of LaBute, it means that a first-class filmmaker has arrived on the scene.
01/11/04
What we also have here, in other words, is a movie in which next to nothing happens. See it only if you are having trouble sleeping.
05/20/03
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