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Rated: R; Genre: Drama; With: Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski and Neil LaBute...

Neil LaBute's disappointing follow-up to In the Company of Men begins promisingly, deftly sketching discomfiting portraits of a sextet of unhappy yuppies. It then proceeds to spin its wheels, underlining the same observations over and over. Counteracting the monotony are fine performances by Ben Stiller as an exasperatingly loquacious adulterer, and Eckhart as the inverse of his sadistic Chad in Men. Patric, however, is so casually monstrous that he becomes a cartoon. B-


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Posted Mar 05, 1999
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