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- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsAaron EckhartMatt MalloyStacy EdwardsTwo business executives--one an avowed misogynist, the other recently emotionally wounded by his love interest--set out to exact revenge on the female gender by seeking out the most innocent, uncorrupted girl they can find and ruining her life.Neil LaBute's pitch-black comedy is a masterful exploration of male insecurity, and it's elevated by a breakout performance by Aaron Eckhart as a businessman who likes to play psychological games.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsAmy BrennemanAaron EckhartBen StillerUnhappy couples fall apart and hop into other beds with other people.Though it may strike some viewers as cold and unpleasant, Neil LaBute's Your Friends & Neighbors is an incisive critique of sexual politics wrapped up in a scathing black comedy.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsRenée ZellwegerMorgan FreemanChris RockComedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.Quirky in the best sense of the word, Nurse Betty finds director Neil LaBute corralling a talented cast in service of a sharp, imaginative script.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsRon EldardCalista FlockhartPaul RuddThree dark, one-act plays exploring of the complexities of evil in everyday life.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsGwyneth PaltrowAaron EckhartJeremy NorthamA pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.It's perhaps a bit tame and uninspiring, considering its subject matter, but Possession manages enough romance and period intrigue to satisfy most fans of its source material.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsPaul RuddRachel WeiszGretchen MolA quiet, unassuming man begins to change in a major way as a result of meeting a new, art-student girlfriend, and his friends are unsettled by the transformation.LaBute returns to his earlier themes of cruelty in relationships, and the results hit hard.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsNicolas CageEllen BurstynLeelee SobieskiA sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.Puzzlingly misguided, Neil LaBute's update The Wicker Man struggles against unintentional comedy and fails.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsSamuel L. JacksonPatrick WilsonKerry WashingtonA troubled and racist African-American L.A.P.D. Officer will stop at nothing to force out a friendly interracial couple who just moved in next door to him.This thriller about a menacing cop wreaking havoc on his neighbors is tense enough but threatens absurdity when it enters into excessive potboiler territory.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsChris RockMartin LawrenceKeith DavidA funeral ceremony turns into a debacle of exposed family secrets and misplaced bodies.It's amusing and it assembles a talented cast, but Neil LaBute's surprisingly faithful remake of the 2007 Frank Oz dramedy ultimately falls short of the original.
- DirectorJacob ChaseRobert FestingerChris FogginStarsLily TomlinJesse Tyler FergusonLucy PunchPresentation that includes incredible short movies with some of the world's biggest actors. In "Friend Request Pending", Judi Dench is a neophyte in the complicated landscape of Internet dating. Colin Firth is an unusually needy neighbor to Keira Knightley in "Steve." Lily Tomlin gets lost on her way to a funeral in "Procession", and Jason Alexander is a screenwriter at the end of his rope in the musical short "Not Your Time." Also including short movies starring Kenneth Branagh, Julia Stiles, Wes Bentley and more.Its most consistent pleasures derive more from its performances than from storytelling.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsStanley TucciAlice EveA man surprises his former mistress by claiming to have left his wife. However, before long, a dark history between the two comes into focus.A sad example of what sometimes happens when a writer of gripping stage plays controls his own independent movie to his own selfish, labored self-satisfaction.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsMatthew BroderickAlice EvePhil BurkeIt is about two colleagues (not friends) that are put in an uncomfortable work waylaid situation that ends up bringing them, if not closer together then more in touch with themselves. Takes place in New Mexico."Dirty Weekend" is a decent idea for a low-budget movie that never gets past the idea stage, and after a brief while, you may start to question whether it should have been a movie at all, much less a 90-minute one.