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Your Friends & Neighbors
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Your Friends & Neighbors is a 1998 Black Comedy film, written and directed by Neil La Bute and starring Aaron Eckhart (who'd appeared in LaBute's previous film, In the Company of Men), Amy Brenneman, Catherine Keener, Ben Stiller, Nastassja Kinski, and Jason Patric.The film follows a pair of ordinary middle-class couples (Eckhart and Brenneman in one, Stiller and Keener in the other), none of whom are particularly happy, secure or sexually fulfilled. In search of excitement and satisfaction, the couples experiment with adultery. The couples are accompanied by a womanizing doctor (Patric) and an artist's assistant who works in a gallery (Kinski).Notable for being the first film to be reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Cary's high school anecdote, in which he and three of his classmates gang-raped a fellow classmate. | |
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Gender-Equal Ensemble | |
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Gender-Equal Ensemble: Three men and three women, and effectively no other characters besides. | |
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Speech-Centric Work | |
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Speech-Centric Work: LaBute's background in theatre is immediately obvious, and effectively every scene consists of characters talking and nothing else. | |
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A Date with Rosie Palms | |
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Barry says that no sexual partner can satisfy himself more than... himself, and seems to regard his wife Mary as unable to truly please him. The fact he'd rather masturbate than have sex also leaves her sexually frustrated. When she leaves him, he also finds himself unable to get an erection anymore, even via masturbation. | |
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Rhyming Names | |
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Rhyming Names: The characters are named Jerry, Terri, Cheri, Cary, Mary and Barry, but their names are only revealed in the closing credits. | |
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Depraved Bisexual | |
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Depraved Bisexual: Cary already seemed like the most actively malicious character in a cast primarily made up of unlikeable jerks, but his depravity is cemented when asked what his greatest sexual experience was, and he describes an incident in high school, when he and three of his classmates gang-raped a fellow (male) classmate. | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: Cheri works as an artist's assistant in a gallery. Every other character independently visits the gallery, and the conversations between Cheri and the other character always begin with exactly the same exchanges: | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Much like Clerks, the MPAA threatened to give this film an NC-17 rating almost entirely due to its foul-mouthed dialogue and frank discussions of sexuality, in spite of it being entirely devoid of violence and drug use and almost entirely lacking in onscreen nudity. | |
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Most Writers Are Writers | |
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Most Writers Are Writers: Mary is a journalist. Terri is a copywriter who writes the copy on the side of tampon boxes, among other products. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Barry and Mary divorce: Mary ends up with Cary but seems no happier or more satisfied, Barry can no longer achieve an erection. Jerry and Terri split up: Terri stays with Cheri, but keeps her at a distance, much to Cheri's distress. | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Although filmed in Los Angeles, the city the film takes place in is never specified. Palm trees visible in the background of one shot were digitally removed in post-production to preserve the ambiguity and the sense that the story could take place anywhere in the US. | |
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Bisexual Love Triangle | |
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Bisexual Love Triangle: Terri cheats on Jerry with Cheri, ultimately leaving him for Cheri, after she discovers that he has also been unfaithful. | |
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Nameless Narrative | |
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Nameless Narrative: None of the characters are actually named in the film. The characters are given Rhyming Names in the end credits, but they're clearly just there to differentiate the roles. | |
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Minimalist Cast | |
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Minimalist Cast: There are effectively only six actors with speaking parts in the film. | |
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers | |
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Most of the characters in the story have very unsatisfying sex lives. Barry says that no sexual partner can satisfy himself more than... himself, and seems to regard his wife Mary as unable to truly please him. The fact he'd rather masturbate than have sex also leaves her sexually frustrated. When she leaves him, he also finds himself unable to get an erection anymore, even via masturbation. Jerry and Terri have a very unsatisfying sex life. She gets annoyed and turned off by how he likes to talk during sex and he's unhappy that she just lays there. Terri eventually just leaves him for Cheri. When Jerry and Mary have their affair and attempt to sleep together, he ends up being unable to perform. Frustrated, he blames it on her, shattering what little self-confidence Mary had about her ability in bed. | |
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Cuckold | |
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Cuckold: Barry, after Mary cheats on him with Jerry. | |
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Dr. Jerk | |
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Dr. Jerk: Cary is a doctor, and shamelessly abuses his position of authority (such as pilfering some hospital letterheaded paper in order to send a letter to an ex falsely informing her that she has tested positive for HIV). Not to mention his admitting to having gang-raped a classmate in high school. | |
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The Loins Sleep Tonight | |
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When Jerry and Mary have their affair and attempt to sleep together, he ends up being unable to perform. Frustrated, he blames it on her, shattering what little self-confidence Mary had about her ability in bed. | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: An arrangement of "Enter Sandman" by Metallica for string orchestra plays over the opening credits. | |
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No Periods, Period | |
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No Periods, Period: Averted when Cary furiously berates a one-night stand for bleeding on his expensive bedsheets. | |
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Tagline: "A modern immorality tale." | |
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