In the Company of Men (Standard & Letterboxed) - Comedy Classic Movies on DVD (1997) Starring Aaron Eckhart; Directed by Neil LaBute; Sony Pictures : OLDIES.com

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Item Number:
CTR 26019D

DVD Feature:
Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada Encoding

Package Type: Keep Case

Special Features: Interactive Menus, Theatrical Trailer, Director and Cast Commentaries, Scene Selections.

Entertainment Reviews:

Total Film - 10/01/1999

"...Intelligent...wickedly funny..." -- 4 out of 5 stars

Sight and Sound - 02/01/1998

"..A radical, alternative and deeply disturbing feminist movie..."

USA Today - 07/31/1997

"...A provocative dissection of human dynamics..." -- 3 out of 4 stars

Film Comment - 03/01/1997

"...Remarkable....Its psychological conflation of sexual and professional frustration is astute..."

Entertainment Weekly - 08/01/1997

"...[A] stunning, unsettling, beautifully written drama....LaBute lets poisons flow..."

New York Times - 08/01/1997

"...Tremendously gutsy....A fascinating, divisive conversation piece..."

Los Angeles Times - 08/01/1997

"...It's convincingly acted, and writer-director LaBute has a gift for a certain kind of comic-scabrous dialogue as well as a sure idea of what he wants to accomplish..."

Chicago Sun-Times - 08/15/1997

"...IN THE COMPANY OF MEN is the kind of bold, uncompromising film that insists on being thought about afterward..."

Product Description:

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 gaining revenge on her sex. While one of the junior execs, Chad (Aaron Eckhart), is relentlessly cold-blooded and cruel, his partner, Howard (Matt Malloy), proves to be a spineless tagalong. When their manipulative game ends, one of them is in for a shocking surprise.

Touted as "the most controversial film of the year" upon its release in 1997, this articulate black comedy sparked a roiling storm of praise and loathing from critics and audiences alike. Eckhart, a college friend of LaBute's, became the primary lightning rod for these passionate, widely varying responses, winning an Independent Spirit Award for his performance while also fending off occasional verbal abuse from angry women mistaking him for the reptilian character he plays. The film unapologetically depicts appalling behavior but never condones Chad and Howard's actions, making it one of the most intriguing and memorable movies of the late 1990s.

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Exerpts:

"Let's hurt somebody." -- Chad (Aaron Eckhart) to Howard (Matt Malloy)

Production Notes:

IN THE COMPANY OF MEN was shot in only 11 days.

Cast and Crew:

Starring		Aaron Eckhart
Directed by		Neil LaBute
Produced by		Mark Archer & Stephen Pevner
Edited by		Joel Plotch
Screenwriting by		Neil LaBute
Composition by		Ken Williams & Karel Roessingh
Director of Photography		Tony Hettinger
Performer		Matt Malloy & Stacy Edwards

In the Company of Men

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