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Neil LaBute
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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 Compa…
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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."
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2026
Murderous
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2023
Fear the Night
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2023
The Shape of Things
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2022
House of Darkness
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2022
Out of the Blue
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2022
Sparring Partner
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2019
Berlin, I Love You
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2019
The I-Land
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2017
Black Chicks
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2017
10 K
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2017
Good Luck: In Farsi
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2016
Van Helsing
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2016
The Mulberry Bush
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2016
Billions
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2015
Middle of the Night
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2015
Dirty Weekend
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2015
Billy & Billie
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2014
It's Okay
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2013
Some Velvet Morning
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2013
Full Circle
TV show Creator
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2013
Some Girl(s)
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2012
Current Events
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2012
Double or Nothing
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2012
Stars in Shorts
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2012
Denise
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2012
BFF
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2011
I Melt with You
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2011
Hell on Wheels
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2011
Sweet Nothings
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2011
After-School Special
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2011
Raging Bull: Reflections on a Classic
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2010
Sexting
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2010
Death at a Funeral
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2010
Heavy Rain
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2009
The Vicious Kind
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2009
Cleanflix
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2008
Lakeview Terrace
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2007
Tumble
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2006
The Wicker Man
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