Your Friends & Neighbors

its next to impossible to “like” this film because its main characters are all so uniformly selfish and dislikable. usually, a screenwriter would be aiming to make the audience like his/her main characters; here, neil labute really goes out there by making damn sure that the audience hates his characters. id say that this dangerous yet highly original approach of his is half-successful: it is a very well-written film, with convincing characterizations of people that literally turn my stomach (jason patrics misogynistic character is my worst nightmare). i actually found the distant nature of... read more