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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 23, 2003
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gretchen Mol, Frederick Weller, Rachel Weisz & Paul Rudd | |
Directed by | Neil LaBute | |
Music by | Elvis Costello | |
Screenwriting by | Neil LaBute | |
Produced by | Rachel Weisz, Gail Mutrux, Philip Steuer & Neil LaBute | |
Director of Photography: | James L. Carter | |
Executive Production by | Eric Fellner & Tim Bevan |
Entertainment Reviews:
[Director] Labute presents a ballsy, daring, and truly original portrait of human cruelty...
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Cinema Crazed
There are barbs here to tickle anyone's paranoia, but the callousness isn't illustrative, just exploitative.
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Time Out
...LaBute, adapting his 2001 play, entwines the four in some skillfully intense dialogue...
Entertainment Weekly
When the players themselves are conceived this superficially, LaBute winds up invalidating his own point.
AV Club
Rating: 3/5 --
The facial jewellery, Elvis Costello music and cell phones notwithstanding, you keep expecting these people to challenge each other to duels with rapiers at dawn.
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Toronto Star
...[LaBute's] ideas on art and humanity will make you hoot, holler, curse the actors, damn LaBute and argue like hell with your date. What else do you want from a movie'...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 5/5 --
Brutal, sexy and astonishingly acted.
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BBC.com
Product Description:
Rachel Weisz, Paul Rudd, Gretchen Mol, and Frederick Weller star in Neil LaBute's adaptation of his own stage play, which also featured all four actors. The film focuses on the unlikely romance between precocious art grad student Evelyn (Weisz) and shy English undergrad Adam (Rudd). As their relationship progresses, the unhip, bookish Adam is brought out of his shell by the spontaneous, opinionated Evelyn. Soon Adam is losing weight, wearing contact lenses instead of glasses, and dressing more fashionably than before. However, Adam's changes begin to affect his longtime friendship with the optimistic, attractive Jenny (Mol) and the cocky, smug Philip (Weller), who are now engaged. Soon the four become involved in a variety of uncomfortable entanglements, ultimately leading to a disturbing revelation.
A welcome return to form for LaBute after the period-piece detour of POSSESSION, THE SHAPE OF THINGS finds the provocative director-screenwriter back in the darkly comedic vein of his first two films, IN THE COMPANY OF MEN and YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. Whereas those two movies focused on the ruthless and manipulative side of the male psyche, this film features a woman carrying out the same sorts of questionable acts of cruelty. As LaBute's film goes from sweet to sadistic, it brings up larger issues involving art and relationships, but these points never detract from the fine ensemble performances or the intriguing central story. Shot in California, the sunny backdrop of THE SHAPE OF THINGS works wonderfully as the counterpoint to the film's shady proceedings and allows the stage-play roots of the tale to unfold in a different light.
A welcome return to form for LaBute after the period-piece detour of POSSESSION, THE SHAPE OF THINGS finds the provocative director-screenwriter back in the darkly comedic vein of his first two films, IN THE COMPANY OF MEN and YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. Whereas those two movies focused on the ruthless and manipulative side of the male psyche, this film features a woman carrying out the same sorts of questionable acts of cruelty. As LaBute's film goes from sweet to sadistic, it brings up larger issues involving art and relationships, but these points never detract from the fine ensemble performances or the intriguing central story. Shot in California, the sunny backdrop of THE SHAPE OF THINGS works wonderfully as the counterpoint to the film's shady proceedings and allows the stage-play roots of the tale to unfold in a different light.