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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1963-03-19
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- school Known for: Writing
- star Popularity: 1.9
- info Birth Place Detroit, Michigan, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Neil LaBute
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Cleanflix
2009-09-11
2
Heavy Rain
2010-02-23
5
Independent's Day
1998-01-15
3
High School Spirits
1986-04-05
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3
Nurse Betty
2000-08-30
3
House of Darkness
2022-09-09
3
Possession
2002-08-16
3
Possession
2002-08-16
3
The Shape of Things
2003-07-24
3
The Wicker Man
2006-08-31
3
Death at a Funeral
2010-04-15
3
Lakeview Terrace
2008-09-19
3
In the Company of Men
1997-03-28
3
Sparring Partner
2022-06-08
3
Your Friends & Neighbors
1998-08-19
3
Your Friends & Neighbors
1998-08-19
3
Stars In Shorts
2012-09-28
3
Some Velvet Morning
2013-12-13
3
Some Velvet Morning
2013-12-13
3
Denise
2012-07-04
3
Some Girl(s)
2013-06-28
3
Some Girl(s)
2013-06-28
3
Bash: Latter-Day Plays
2001-08-28
3
Middle of the Night
2015-12-07
3
The Shape of Things
2003-07-24
3
Bash: Latter-Day Plays
2001-08-28
3
Sweet Nothings
2011-10-22
3
After-School Special
2011-06-23
3
Tumble
2007-09-25
3
Tumble
2007-09-25
3
Current Events
2012-11-02
3
Tour de France
3
Heavy Rain
2010-02-23
3
Sexting
2010-10-09
3
Sexting
2010-10-09
3
Out of the Blue
2022-08-26
3
Out of the Blue
2022-08-26
3
House of Darkness
2022-09-09
3
Out of the Blue
2022-08-26
3
House of Darkness
2022-09-09
3
10 K
2017-02-07
3
10 K
2017-02-07
3
Berlin, I Love You
2019-12-04
3
Dirty Weekend
2015-09-04
3
Dirty Weekend
2015-09-04
3
BFF
2012-04-28
3
BFF
2012-04-28
3
I Melt with You
2011-12-09
3
Double or Nothing
2012-10-13
3
The Mulberry Bush
2016-04-15
3
The Mulberry Bush
2016-04-15
3
The Shape of Things
2023-05-06
3
In the Company of Men
1997-03-28
3
In the Company of Men
1997-03-28
3
Fear the Night
2023-07-21
3
Fear the Night
2023-07-21
3
Fear the Night
2023-07-21
3
The Wicker Man
2006-08-31
3
Stars In Shorts
2012-09-28
3
The Shape of Things
2003-07-24
3
Good Luck: In Farsi
2017-01-01
3
Black Chicks
2017-06-18
3
Black Chicks
2017-06-18
3
Black Chicks
2017-06-18
3
It's Okay
2014-06-19
3
Hell on Wheels
2011-11-06
3
Billions
2016-01-17
3
Van Helsing
2016-09-23
3
The I-Land
2019-09-12
3
The I-Land
2019-09-12
3
Van Helsing
2016-09-23
3
The I-Land
2019-09-12
3
Full Circle
2013-10-09
3
Billy & Billie
2015-03-03
3
Van Helsing
2016-09-23