In the Company of Men
In the Company of Men is a 1997 Canadian–American black comedy film, written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, and Stacy Edwards. The film, which was adapted from a play written by LaBute, and served as his feature film debut, won him the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.
Plot
Chad and Howard are two middle management employees at a corporation, temporarily assigned to a branch office away from home for six weeks. Embittered by bad experiences with women, Chad and Howard form a mean-spirited revenge scheme to find an insecure woman, romance her simultaneously, and then break up with her at the same time. Chad is the originator and driving force behind the scheme, while Howard is the more passive of the two, which leads to a later conflict with the scheme.
More details
author | Neil LaBute |
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contentLocation | Indiana |
director | Neil LaBute |
editor | Joel Plotch |
genre | comedy |
keywords | drive home office horrify insecure woman learn listen middle management project a self-conscious self-consciousness think |
musicBy | Karel Roessingh Ken Williams |
producer | Mark Archer Stephen Pevner |
productionCompany | Alliance Atlantis |
publisher | Sony Pictures Classics |
theme | black comedy buddy dance independent |