In the Company of Men (1997) ( En compagnie des hommes )

In the Company of Men (1997) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: En compagnie des hommes
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Sundance Film Festival
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
97 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Neil LaBute

Written By:
Neil LaBute

Actors:
Aaron Eckhart ..... Chad
Stacy Edwards ..... Christine
Matt Malloy ..... Howard
Emily Cline ..... Suzanne
Jason Dixie ..... Intern
Chris Hayes ..... Co-worker #2
Michael Martin ..... Co-worker #1
Mark Rector ..... John
Roxanne Butler ..... Flight attendant
Tahira Essix ..... Traveler
Julia Henkel ..... Traveler
Sara Pauley ..... Traveler
Cheryl Russell ..... Traveler
Jasen Savage ..... Traveler/bank patron
Lynette Smith ..... Traveler

Synopsis:

Two junior executives on a six week business trip, both of whom have been recently hurt by women, devise a horrible plan to get even with women for their past hurts: They intend to find, romance, and then dump a vulnerable woman. They choose Cristine, and for a while all goes according to plan. However, it soon becomes clear that things are not as simple as they think.

Neil LaBute's disturbing and corrosively funny debut feature is pure dynamite as a character study and investigation of the mindset of the corporate male (or perhaps the male in general). As both writer and director, LaBute gives his leading characters enough detail to emerge as flesh-and-blood people rather than caricatures of Bad Men, and Aaron Eckhart and Matt Malloy make the most of their material as Chad and Howard, the yuppies who seek to win and then crush the affections of a hearing impaired co-worker. In this story, Chad and Howard's humanity doesn't redeem them; in fact, they seem all the more repulsive for it, especially Howard, initially the more benign member of the pair, whose fear and distrust of women becomes as ugly as Chad's more obvious misogyny. While Stacy Edwards isn't given as much to do, she makes Christine well-rounded enough to have her own complement of virtues and flaws. The starkly beautiful images evoke Edward Hopper's paintings of urban isolation, as they enhance the film's tone of clinical and sterile detachment. In the company of men of course carries a double meaning, as the movie indicts American corporate culture as much as (or more than) men as a gender. If you wanted to kick start a heated debate about gender issues at the end of the 20th century, one viewing of this movie gave you all the encouragement you needed.

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