Your Friends & Neighbors

Name: Your Friends & Neighbors
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: August 21, 1998
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Amy Brenneman, Ben Stiller, Nastassja Kinski

1998

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Gramercy Pictures (I) | Release Date: August 21, 1998 | NC-17

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Amy Brenneman, Ben Stiller, Nastassja Kinski

Summary: Six urbanites play musical beds.

Director: Neil LaBute

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: NC-17

Runtime: 100 min

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34	#34 Best Movie of 1998

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Roger Ebert

LaBute's "Your Friends and Neighbors'' is to "In the Company of Men'' as Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction'' was to "Reservoir Dogs.'' In both cases, the second film reveals the full scope of the talent, and the director, given greater resources, paints what he earlier sketched. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Bleak, scathing, and utterly compelling. Read full review

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

LaBute achieves a bracing originality by observing human folly as a means to understand rather than condemn. Love or hate his films, LaBute is one of the most challenging filmmakers to emerge in years. Read full review

ReelViews James Berardinelli

As was true for "In the Company of Men," LaBute doesn't care if viewers are offended. Supported by a fine group of actors, he tells the story without compromises, and that gives us a refreshing alternative to multiplex fare. Read full review

Richard Corliss

Jason Patric is the chief sleaze; Ben Stiller adds to his gallery of wormy guys; and Aaron Eckhart is the doleful husband who, when asked who his best lay was, unabashedly answers, "Me." [24 August 1998, p. 85]

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

The cast is OK, and LaBute still has an eye, but the uses they're put to seem contrived and arty. Read full review

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

This is an embarrassing film. It's a sex comedy that sets itself up as a satire of middle-class mores, except there's no truth behind any of its observations. LaBute tries to be shocking and manages only to be shockingly puerile -- tasteless in a high-school-boyish sort of way. Read full review

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ChadS.

May 25, 2007

"Your Friends and Neighbors" is "Husbands and Wives" with gay husbands and lesbian wives. Conditioned over the years by countless films that depict heterosexual relationships, an alternative sexual orientation makes us aware that we unintentionally efface the possibility of latent "Your Friends and Neighbors" is "Husbands and Wives" with gay husbands and lesbian wives. Conditioned over the years by countless films that depict heterosexual relationships, an alternative sexual orientation makes us aware that we unintentionally efface the possibility of latent homosexuality in seemingly straight people. When Terri(Catherine Keener) weeps over her husband's infidelity, it may strike a false note for many viewers(including me) because in most films, the woman is crying over her cheatin' man. Even though Terri is having an affair with Cheri(Nastassja Kinski), an art assistant she met at a museum, we still hold on to our orthodox preconceptions about ideal love(as it's presented in the movies; the love between a man and a woman), and that Terri does has some hidden resevoir of feelings for Jerry(Ben Stiller), a man we thought she abhorred. But late in "Your Friends and Neighbors", Terri tells Jerry(who slept with his best friend's wife) that her affair is more honorable because she "...had the decency to f***** outside their social circle." She seems to be obliquely making reference to Mary(Amy Brenneman), who oddly enough, is the one person who never meets Terri's girlfriend. Terri was probably crying over an unrequited love for Mary. She and her husband have the same taste in women.… Expand

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