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Neil LaBute

Director, Writer, Producer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn March 19, 1963 (61 years)
Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American playwright, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for a play that he wrote and later adapted for film, In the Company of Men (1997), which won awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle. LaBute created the TV series Billy & Billie, writing and directing all of the episodes. He is also the creator of the TV series Van Helsing. Critics have responded to his plays as having a misanthropic tone. Rob Weinert-Kendt in The Village Voice referred to LaBute as "American theater's reigning misanthrope". The New York Times said that critics labeled him a misanthrope on the release of his film Your Friends & Neighbors because of the film's strong misanthropic plot and characters. Britain's Independent newspaper in May 2008 dubbed him "America's misanthrope par excellence". Citing the misanthropic tone of the plot in the films In the Company of Men, Your Friends & Neighbors and The Shape of Things, film critic Daniel Kimmel identified a pattern running through LaBute's work of being that the unlikeable, main antagonists of those three films end up getting away with their lying, scheming and mis-deeds, coming out on top of all the other characters as the real winners of those stories by quoting: "Neil LaBute is a misanthrope who assumes that only callous and evil people, who use and abuse others, can survive in this world."

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Vicious Kind
  • I Melt with You
  • Berlin, I Love You
  • Dirty Weekend
  • Some Velvet Morning
  • Some Freaks
  • Sexting

Known For

  • The Wicker Man
  • Lakeview Terrace
  • Death at a Funeral
  • Nurse Betty
  • In the Company of Men
  • Van Helsing
  • Hell on Wheels
  • Possession
  • The Shape of Things
  • The I-Land
  • Your Friends and Neighbors
  • House of Darkness
  • Fear the Night
  • Billions
  • Some Girl(s)
  • Dirty Weekend
  • Some Velvet Morning
  • Out of the Blue
  • Billy & Billie
  • Berlin, I Love You

Filmography

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