TV Guide: Neil LaBute

Listing: Your Friends and Neighbors

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Video: Neil LaBute

PBS — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:26:05 -0500

Noted playwright-director offers his opinion on how Hollywood is doing in answering the race question both on and off the set.

Video: Four Hundred Blows, The -- (Movie Intro/Outro) Neil LaBute

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:22:26 -0500

Director and playwright Neil LaBute is TCM's Guest Programmer joining Robert Osborne to introduce Francois Truffaut's The Four Hundred Blows, 1959, starring Jean-Pierre Leaud.

Video: 'Lakeview Terrace' Clip: "Back Off"

MSN Video — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:36:20 -0500

Neil LaBute directis this thriller about an interracial couple (Gabriel Macht and Kerry Washington) who move into their dream home in Californa, only to find themselves the target of their volatile neighbor -- a racist LAPD officer (played by Samuel L. Jackson).

Video: Morgan Freeman

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:08:20 -0500

Morgan Freeman sits down with Host James Lipton for "Inside the Actors Studio," now in its twelfth season. With an authoritative voice, this calmly demeaning and ever popular African American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Born in June 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, the young Freeman attended Los Angeles Community College before serving several years in the US Air Force as a mechanic between 1955 and 1959. His first dramatic arts exposure was on the stage and he appeared in an off Broadway production of "The N****r Lovers" and also in an all-African American production of the exuberant musical Hello, Dolly! (1969). Freeman's work in later years included the slave tale of Amistad (1997), he was a worried US President facing Armageddon from above in Deep Impact (1998), appeared in the loopy Neil LaBute black comedy Nurse Betty (2000), and reprised his role as "Alex Cross" in Along Came a Spider (2001). Now highly popular, he was much in demand with cinema audiences, a

Video: Manhattan -- (Movie Intro/Outro) Neil LaBute

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:02:53 -0500

Director, playwright and TCM Guest Programmer Neil LaBute joins Robert Osborne to introduce Woody Allen's Manhattan, 1979, starring Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep and Mariel Hemingway.

Video: This Sporting Life -- (Movie Intro) Neil LaBute

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:47:10 -0500

Writer-Director and TCM Guest Programmer Neil LaBute joins Robert Osborne to introduce This Sporting Life, 1963, starring Richard Harris.

Video: Ace in the Hole -- (Movie Intro/Outro) Neil LaBute

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:22:35 -0500

Playwright, director and TCM Guest Programmer Neil LaBute joins Robert Osborne to introduce Billy Wilder's Ace In the Hole, 1951, starring Kirk Douglas.

Video: Shape Of Things, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:58:02 -0500

After a detour into lighter and more compassionate fare with Nurse Betty and Possession, Neil LaBute returns to the themes of his earlier films with this dark and corrosive look at male-female relationships. Adam (Paul Rudd) is a chubby, bespectacled nebbish of a college student who makes money in his spare time as a security guard at the university's art museum. One evening at work, Adam spies another student preparing to deface a statue -- Evelyn (Rachel Weisz), a beautiful art major who is offended by a fig leaf that's been used to censor a statue of a nude male, and is prepared to replace the disguised member with spray paint. Adam can't quite bring himself to kick Evelyn out of the museum, and she responds by giving him her phone number. Adam and Evelyn begin dating, and as she challenges his ideas about art and morality, she begins remaking Adam into the sort of boyfriend she'd prefer. Under her influence, Adam loses weight, gets contact lenses, changes his hairstyle, starts dressing better, and assumes

Video: Possession

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:22:46 -0500

In Neil LaBute's film adaptation of A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning 1990 novel, Aaron Eckhart (who has starred in all of LaBute's films) plays Roland Michell, an American academic researcher, working in London, who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam [Gosford Park]). Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle of Sunshine). Roland contacts Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), an expert on LaMotte's life and work, who tells him that LaMotte couldn't have had an affair with Ash because she lived most of her life with a female companion, Blanche Glover (Lena Headey), in what was apparently a romantic relationship. Despite Maud's skepticism, the two begin to investigate, and uncover a wealth of information about the affair between the two poets. Period scenes of

Video: In The Company Of Men

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:41:53 -0500

Two frustrated young executives vent their pent-up rage via a childish prank and end up paying a price in this psychological black comedy, the feature-film debut of writer-director Neil LaBute. Former college buddies Chad (Aaron Eckhart) and Howard (Matt Malloy) are in their early 30s and work in the same company. One day the two encounter each other in the men's executive washroom and begin expressing their mutual frustration regarding their lack of rapid advancement at work and their most recent bad luck with women. In hopes of gaining revenge against the fairer sex and bolstering their battered egos, the two hatch a nasty scheme to be enacted over an upcoming six-week-long business trip: Find a vulnerable young woman to court, slather with affection, and then callously dump. They choose a lovely, hearing-impaired typist named Christine (Stacey Edwards), a woman who hasn't dated in many years. Not realizing that she is about to be the metaphorical mouse between a pair of hungry cats, she laps up the sudden

Video: Nurse Betty

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:37:48 -0500

After two acclaimed independent films in which he took a troubling look at male/female relations, director Neil LaBute moves on to less controversial ground in this dark comedy. Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger) is a woman from Kansas City who waits tables at a diner and is married to an insensitive thug named Del (Aaron Eckhart). One of Betty's few pleasures in life is the soap opera A Reason to Love. Her favorite character is handsome Dr. David Ravell, played by George McCord (Greg Kinnear). One night, Del gets involved in a drug deal with a pair of gangsters, Charlie (Morgan Freeman) and his sidekick Wesley (Chris Rock). Del's thoughtless racial slurs lead to an arguement, and the short-tempered Wesley attacks him; Charlie is forced to kill Del, as Betty watches. Dazed and in shock, Betty hops into her car, deciding that the time is right for a date with destiny. Betty tracks down George McCord, and soon the soap's producer Lyla (Allison Janney) is considering Betty for a part on A Reason to Love, not reali

Video: Your Friends & Neighbors

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:12:10 -0500

For the follow-up to In the Company of Men, the misogyny-on-parade debut that became an out of nowhere indie hit, auteur Neil LaBute wrote and directed a piece that gives more equal representation to the shortcomings of both genders than his earlier film. Three men stand on one side: Cary (Jason Patrick), a womanizing doctor who rehearses make-out lines and keeps his body almost grotesquely ripped; Jerry (Ben Stiller), a self-obsessed theater instructor who chews over every emotion like a morsel of dessert; and Barry (Aaron Eckhart), a man grown soft in his marriage to a woman who can't satisfy him sexually as well as he can himself. On the other side we have three equally well-defined women: Terri (Catherine Keener), a writer/editor whose prefers to keep words out of the bedroom, much to the chagrin of live-in beau Jerry; Mary (Amy Brenneman), a freelance writer whose attempts to find her own sexual fulfillment with both husband Barry and paramour Jerry meet with a similar lack of success; and Cheri (Nastass

Video: Wicker Man, The

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:14:01 -0500

A young child has gone missing and it's up to a haunted but determined policeman to travel to the remote island community where she was last seen and solve the lingering mystery of her disappearance in director Neil LaBute's updated reworking of Anthony Shaffer's 1973 cult horror classic. Upon receiving a letter from his one-time fianc e, Willow (Kate Beahan), imploring him to search for her missing daughter on the secluded island of Summersisle, Policeman Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) quickly makes his way to the island to locate the girl and seek an answer as to why Willow suddenly and inexplicably disappeared shortly before their wedding date. Once there, Malus is troubled to discover that although there are traces of the child to be found in such locations as the local schoolhouse, the residents of Summersisle seem reluctant to offer any specific details as to the girl's apparent death. His investigation effectively stalled by the highly secretive Wiccan community, Sheriff Malus soon discovers that there a

Video: "Yahoo! Movies Close-Up"

Yahoo Movies — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:01:40 -0500

Director Neil LaBute and Stars Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, and Gretchen Mol discuss human imperfections as they relate to their characters in 'The Shape of Things.' Produced by Movie News Syndicate.

Video: 'The Wicker Man' Exclusive Clip: "Summersisle"

MSN Video — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:55:04 -0500

Nicolas Cage investigates the disappearance of a young girl on a remote island, only to discover that the islanders are part of a sinister cult. Neil LaBute ("The Shape of Things," "Nurse Betty") writes and directs.

Video: 'The Wicker Man' Clip: "My Little Girl"

MSN Video — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:50:41 -0500

Video: 'The Wicker Man' Clip: "I'll Get It"

MSN Video — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:29:35 -0500

Video: 'The Wicker Man' Clip: "This Girl"

MSN Video — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:58:06 -0500

Video: The Wickerman - Clip #1

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:27:44 -0500

Video: Unscripted: Nicolas Cage and Neil LaBute in 'The Wicker Man' - Part 3

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:27:36 -0500