Cheap Your Friends & Neighbors (DVD) (Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Nastassja Kinski, Ben Stiller) (Neil LaBute) Price
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| ACTORS: | Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Nastassja Kinski, Ben Stiller |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Neil LaBute |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 21 August, 1998 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Universal Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 025192379826 |
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Customer Reviews of Your Friends & Neighbors
From the totally sick and deranged mind of Neil Labute comes a movie with not much of a plot, but plenty of selfish people who only care about sex. While there is much talk about it there aren't many sex scenes. The discussions here are more frank and graphic than the act itself.
I caught this on Independant Film Channel, and actually had my hand on the remote control and ready to change it at several scenes, but kept it on.
The entire film centers around six people that are all connected in some way, and they are all extremely self absorped people who will stop at nothing for their tiny chance of any happiness.
Except one, Nastassja Kinski, she plays this artist assistant who develops a sexual relationship with Catherine Keener's character. The dialogue and direction are all the same in the "introduction" of every character to Kinski's, and well, it was good for a chuckle. Which you needed in this film, due to the general direction it took -- which was Narcissism at its worst.
Jason Patric, who now is forever embedded on my brain as this woman hating but sex loving jerk, was mind blowing in this movie. There is one particular scene where he monologues and the nature of the talk is very difficult to stomach. It was like listening to a psychopath justify his crimes.
I am a very open minded person, and i think that is what you need to be to watch this movie. It reminded me of the movie "Happiness" in that respect. There is a film that is just utterly sick, but what's sicker is that some of it is actually funny. So, if you liked "Happiness", chances are you will like this as well.
Ben Stiller and Amy Brenneman(of the show, Judging Amy) are the only other actors I recognized. The other actor Aaron Eckhart appeared in the first movie of director Neil Labute's 'In the Company of Men', which I haven't seen.
The acting is very well done, but the subject matter itself just isn't for everyone. It certainly isn't something one(at least anyone I know) has to be in the mood for to watch.
It is a disturbing piece of work that I don't recommend. There is nothing redeeming about the characters and it leaves us all hanging.
Definitely not entertaining..
by any stretch of the viewers' imagination! Director Neil LaBute does not seek to entertain, but to expose, in this morality play, I think.
There are six players in the film version of social-sexual arrogance. Initially, you view them with varying degrees of interest, but by the end of the film, you dislike all of them, some more than most.
LaBute, with slightly more budget than he had for his breakthrough debut, "In the Company of Men" (ICM), uses it wisely to attract excellent role-players, then films it well, in all indoor, and slightly claustrophobic settings. He continues his theme of the cruelty of the alpha male, to both the other sex, and his own male friends.
Although each of the actors plays well (I particularly liked Aaron Eckhart, playing against type and doing a "180" from his role in ICM, as a poorly groomed, chubby and needy husband and friend) there is no question that the film is sought out by film afficianados to observe the performance of Jason Patric.
From the opening scene, Patric makes your skin crawl at the depths of his ability to hate the fairer sex. His hold over Stiller & Eckhart's characters is resonant in the fascinating steam room scene. Patric, deliberately cruel, is self-assured enough to fall into reverie about his infliction of power in a past homosexual rape. His intensity and believability make you wonder why Colin Farrell is getting all the good roles when Patric is a far more powerful actor.
In this film, LaBute does not exceed his earlier work (ICM) but puts us on warning that he is a force to be reckoned with in filmmaking.
A caution; most filmgoers will abhor this film. My recommendation is to see it for the experience, not the entertainment.
With Friends like these......
This modern, partly dark, slightly comic, exploration of sexual goings-on in America is somewhat of a strange excercise. The film takes the opportunity more than once to rabbit-punch the audience. A very good cast turns in fine performances. Notably, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener and Jason Patric who presents one of the oddest characters in memory. His confrontation with Keener in a bookstore is worth a star all its own.