Search - Your Friends & Neighbors on DVD

MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1998 DVD Release: 07/13/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 50 mins Studio: Polygram USA Video Members Wishing: 7 Genres: Comedy, Black Comedy, Comedy of Manners, Ensemble Film See Also: Your Friends and Neighbors

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 (Nastassja Kinski), an art assistant who meets most of the other characters one by one at a gallery but directs her sylph-like affections in an unexpected direction. The lies, double-crosses, and confrontations between these characters resolve into a sinisterly comic indictment of the very idea of romantic fulfillment. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Amy Brenneman - Mary
Aaron Eckhart - Barry
Catherine Keener - Terri
Nastassja Kinski - Cheri
Jason Patric - Cary
Ben Stiller - Jerry

Neil LaBute's emotionally brutal social satire Your Friends and Neighbors comes to DVD with two different transfers. The widescreen transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and is preferable to the standard full-frame 1.33:1 image. Closed-captioned English soundtracks are rendered in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital Stereo. French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a commentary track, a theatrical trailer, and cast and crew biographies and filmographies. Fans of Labute's hyper-verbal style will greatly enjoy this disc, and the extras may draw in the uninitiated. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide