Dirty Weekend: Neil LaBute's Dirty Backlash

Your Friends and NeighborsThe Shape of ThingsIn the Company of MenDirty WeekendBrokeback MountainElectionQueen of EarthArmond WhiteMovies Neil LaBute’s films were always morbidly gay-ish. Your Friends and Neighbors seemed morbidly obsessed with Jason Patric’s hyperthreatening masculinity; The Shape of Things made-over Paul Rudd like a diabolical fashionista; and LaBute’s debut film In the Company of Men morbidly idealized Aaron Eckhart’s arrogant WASP machismo. Now, after 20 years of innuendo, LaBute has finally made a film that’s almost open about gayness in Dirty Weekend. That title tells us he’s still conflicted and the plot — Matthew Broderick and Alice Eve as Les and Natalie, coworkers who reveal personal secrets while on a weekend business...

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Sep 3rd 2015
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