Neil LaButeFilmography

Born:: March 19, 1963
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter, Play Author
Biography:: Combining intriguing moral and ethical metaphors with dark portraits of the underside of American life, writer and director Neil LaBute became one of the most controversial new filmmakers to emerge in the 1990s, offering a perspective that was intelligent and possessing a brutally clear focus....Read More

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Death at a Funeral

Crew: Director

Actors: Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Tracy Morgan, Danny Glover, Regina Hall

Synopsis: Frank Oz's 2007 black comedy laugher Death at a Funeral is given the remake treatment with an urban spin in this Chris Rock-penned production. The comedian will head up an ensemble that comes together after a death in the family, with disastrous results. Rock penned the script with Aeysha Carr for Read More

1/1/10
The Woman Next Door

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Taylor Hackford steps into the remake arena with this redo of François Truffaut's 1981 film The Woman Next Door, with Neil LaBute providing the adaptation that centers on two people whose sexual past comes to haunt them when they find themselves living next to each other and forced to face their Read More

1/1/09
Killer at Large

Actors: Bill Clinton, Ralph Nader, Tom Harkin, Sam Brownback, Arnold Schwarzenegger

2009
Cleanflix

Synopsis: The true story of a handful of Mormon movie buffs and their efforts to clean up Hollywood hits (and make money doing it) are chronicled in this documentary from filmmakers Andrew James and Joshua Ligairi. In Utah, a state where a significant number of residents are members of the Church of Jesus Read More

2009
Lakeview Terrace

Crew: Director

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Ron Glass, Justin Chambers

Synopsis: An interracial couple moves into their California dream home, only to find themselves the target of their volatile next-door neighbor -- a racist LAPD officer -- in this tightly wound thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington. Newlyweds Chris and Lisa seem like they have the perfect Read More

9/19/08
The Vicious Kind

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Brittany Snow, Adam Scott, J.K. Simmons, Alex Frost

Synopsis: Untrusting of women following a bitter break-up on the eve of Thanksgiving, a misanthropic construction worker finds himself inexplicably attracted to his younger brother's new girlfriend. Caleb Sinclaire (Adam Scott) has just been through a particularly difficult break-up. Isolated, yet strangely Read More

2008
The Wicker Man

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy

Synopsis: A young child has gone missing and it's up to a haunted but determined policeman to travel to the remote island community where she was last seen and solve the lingering mystery of her disappearance in director Neil LaBute's updated reworking of Anthony Shaffer's 1973 cult horror classic. Upon Read More

9/1/06
The Shape of Things

Crew: Director, Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gretchen Mol, Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Frederick Weller

Synopsis: After a detour into lighter and more compassionate fare with Nurse Betty and Possession, Neil LaBute returns to the themes of his earlier films with this dark and corrosive look at male-female relationships. Adam (Paul Rudd) is a chubby, bespectacled nebbish of a college student who makes money in Read More

5/9/03
A Decade Under the Influence

Actors: Steven Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Ellen Burstyn

Synopsis: In the late '60s, American culture experienced a period of change as the youth movement challenged conventional attitudes about politics, sex, drugs, and gender issues, while the advancement of the Vietnam War found many citizens questioning the actions and wisdom of their government for the first Read More

4/25/03
Possession

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Northam, Lena Headey

Synopsis: In Neil LaBute's film adaptation of A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning 1990 novel, Aaron Eckhart (who has starred in all of LaBute's films) plays Roland Michell, an American academic researcher, working in London, who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Read More

8/16/02
Nurse Betty

Crew: Director

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Harriet Sansom Harris, Allison Janney, Aaron Eckhart, Greg Kinnear

Synopsis: After two acclaimed independent films in which he took a troubling look at male/female relations, director Neil LaBute moves on to less controversial ground in this dark comedy. Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger) is a woman from Kansas City who waits tables at a diner and is married to an Read More

9/8/00
Bash: Latter Day Plays

Crew: Director, Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Rudd, Calista Flockhart, Ron Eldard

Synopsis: Neil LaBute's Bash: Latter Day Plays is a film of his theatrical presentation of three one-act plays. As in much of LaBute's work, the darker side of human nature is explored. "Gaggle of Saints" features a couple (Paul Rudd of Clueless and Calista Flockhart of Ally McBeal), students at Boston Read More

2000
Independent's Day

Synopsis: The Sundance Channel produced this guided tour through the world of independent films and filmmakers, tossing out the statistic that the movement has escalated from some 50 films in 1985, to 800 in 1997. Interview segments include Sundance fest director Geoffrey Gilmore, fest programmer Bob Hawk Read More

1998
Your Friends & Neighbors

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski, Jason Patric, Ben Stiller

Synopsis: For the follow-up to In the Company of Men, the misogyny-on-parade debut that became an out of nowhere indie hit, auteur Neil LaBute wrote and directed a piece that gives more equal representation to the shortcomings of both genders than his earlier film. Three men stand on one side: Cary (Jason Read More

1998
In the Company of Men

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, Stacy Edwards

Synopsis: Two frustrated young executives vent their pent-up rage via a childish prank and end up paying a price in this psychological black comedy, the feature-film debut of writer-director Neil LaBute. Former college buddies Chad (Aaron Eckhart) and Howard (Matt Malloy) are in their early 30s and work in Read More

1997