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May 9th, 2003 |
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Focus Features |
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1 hr. 37 min. |
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Overwiew :A contemporary story of love, sex, and art set in a college town, the film follows the steadily intensifying relationship between Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) and Adam (Paul Rudd). As Evelyn strengthens her hold on Adam, his emotional and physical evolution discomforts his friends Jenny (Gretchen Mol) and Philip (Frederick Weller), with unexpected consequences for all. By turns hopeful and harsh, the quartet of college-age characters deals with the conflicting human desires for autonomy and connection, truth and love, and the notion that seduction is an art. |
Starring :
Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Gretchen Mol, Frederick Weller
Directors :
Neil LaBute
Producers :
Philip Steuer, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : The world of Neil LaBute is a battleground of carnage between the sexes. Men and women distrust one another, scheme to humiliate one another, are inspired to fearsome depths of cruelty. Their warfare takes place in the affluent habitats of the white upper middle class--restaurants, bookstores, coffeeshops, corporate offices, campuses, museums and apartments of tasteful sterility. Although one of his Gender Wars films was shot in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the other two in Southern California, there is no way to tell that from the information on the more...
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www.salon.com - : May 9, 2003 | There's often a kind of emotional truth to Neil LaBute's earnest, mannered, fakey-dark dramas. As we used to say in '70s California, he's coming from someplace real, man. In his new film, ''The Shape of Things,'' he absolutely nails the kind of horrific college-age friendship between two guys who actually don't like each other at all, whose every moment together is driven by competition, hatred, misogyny, homoerotic desire and homophobia, all at the same time. If you've ever had that kind of friendship, or even been around it, it'll set your teeth on edge. more...
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : If Neil LaBute's views about love and human relationships are represented by what appears in his motion pictures, then to call him a cynic would be an understatement. The Shape of Things returns to the same general terrain as In the Company of Men with a twisted love story about manipulation, the loss of innocence, and the brutality of betrayal. What starts out as a talky, modern-day re-interpretation of Pygmalion (Henry Higgins is explicitly mentioned) turns into something heart-wrenchingly bleak. If this is the potential price of opening oneself up to tender feelings, why would anyone bother? more...
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