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Neil LaBute

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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Nurse Betty

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House of Darkness

(Director)

Possession

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Possession

(Director)

The Shape of Things

(Director)

The Wicker Man

(Director)

Death at a Funeral

(Director)

Lakeview Terrace

(Director)

In the Company of Men

(Director)

Sparring Partner

(Screenplay)

Your Friends & Neighbors

(Writer)

Your Friends & Neighbors

(Director)

Stars In Shorts

(Director)

Some Velvet Morning

(Director)

Some Velvet Morning

(Writer)

Denise

(Writer)

Some Girl(s)

(Screenplay)

Some Girl(s)

(Theatre Play)

Bash: Latter-Day Plays

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Middle of the Night

(Writer)

The Shape of Things

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Sweet Nothings

(Writer)

Bash: Latter-Day Plays

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After-School Special

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Tumble

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Tumble

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Current Events

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Tour de France

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Heavy Rain

(Director)

Sexting

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Sexting

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Out of the Blue

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Out of the Blue

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House of Darkness

(Writer)

Out of the Blue

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House of Darkness

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10 K

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10 K

(Director)

Berlin, I Love You

(Writer)

Dirty Weekend

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Dirty Weekend

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BFF

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BFF

(Screenplay)

I Melt with You

(Executive Producer)

Double or Nothing

(Writer)

The Mulberry Bush

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The Mulberry Bush

(Screenplay)

The Shape of Things

(Writer)

The Shape of Things

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In the Company of Men

(Screenplay)

In the Company of Men

(Theatre Play)

Fear the Night

(Executive Producer)

Fear the Night

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Fear the Night

(Director)

The Wicker Man

(Screenplay)

Stars In Shorts

(Writer)

The Shape of Things

(Producer)

Good Luck: In Farsi

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Black Chicks

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Black Chicks

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Black Chicks

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It's Okay

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Hell on Wheels

(Director)

Billions

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Van Helsing

(Writer)

The I-Land

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The I-Land

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Van Helsing

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The I-Land

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Full Circle

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Billy & Billie

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Van Helsing

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