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Mood:
- CleverHumorousSexualWittyBiting
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Plot:
- Battle of the SexesCrumbling MarriageCouple RelationsInfidelityLooking for LoveLove AffairSexual RelationsMidlife Crisis more...
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Genres:
- ComedyDrama
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Audience:
- Girls' Night
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Humor:
- Dark Humor
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Style:
- Ensemble CastTalky
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealisticSlow
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Your Friends & Neighbors, 1998
English
USA
Profile of Your Friends & Neighbors
The mood of Your Friends & Neighbors is clever, sexual, and humorous. The plot centers around thirtysomething life, a midlife crisis, and a battle of the sexes. It features dark humor. Your Friends & Neighbors is a drama and comedy movie. Stylistically, it stars an ensemble cast and is talky. In approach, it is realistic. The pacing of Your Friends & Neighbors is slow. It happens in the 1990s. It is especially suggested for a girls' night.
Summary of Your Friends & Neighbors
Neil LaBute's second film, Your Friends & Neighbors, is a dark comedy of manners that follows two unhappy couples and their single friends through a series of emotional and physical entanglements. Barry (Aaron Eckhart) and Mary (Amy Brenneman) are a married couple plagued by sexual frustration. Their friend Jerry (Ben Stiller), a theater professor, lives with his girlfriend, Terri (Catherine Keener), who's sick of his endless bedroom banter. Added to the fold are Cary (Jason Patric), a narcissistic, womanizing doctor, and Cheri (Nastassja Kinski), a free-spirited gallery assistant. While Jerry hopes to have an affair with Mary, Terri strikes up a relationship with Cheri, leading to a host of humorously painful conflicts.
Cleverly framed by scenes in which each character examines the same painting in Cheri's gallery, the film presents an unflinchingly harsh look at relationships. More than anything else, it pinpoints--with hilarious effect--the human inability to communicate. Perfectly cast and expertly acted, Your Friends & Neighbors furthers LaBute's reputation as a challengingly original filmmaker.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 19 August 1998 |
| Runtime: | 100 min |
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as Jerry
as Mary
as Cary
as Terri
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The New York Times
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- by: Elvis Mitchell
Rolling Stone
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- by: Peter Travers
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