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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Films (44)
Murderous
2026 · Director, Writer
Noche sangrienta
2023 · Director, Executive Producer, Writer
The Shape of Things
2023 · Writer
Encuentro Macabro
2022 · Director, Writer, Producer
Désir fatal
2022 · Director, Writer, Producer
Sparring Partner
2022 · Screenplay
Berlín, te amo
2019 · Writer
Black Chicks
2017 · Producer, Writer, Director
10 K
2017 · Writer, Director
Good Luck: In Farsi
2017 · Writer
The Mulberry Bush
2016 · Director, Screenplay
Middle of the Night
2015 · Writer
Dirty Weekend
2015 · Director, Writer
It's Okay
2014 · Writer
Some Velvet Morning
2013 · Director, Writer
Algunas Mujeres
2013 · Screenplay, Theatre Play
Current Events
2012 · Writer
Double or Nothing
2012 · Writer
Stars in Shorts
2012 · Director, Writer
Denise
2012 · Writer
BFF
2012 · Director, Screenplay
I Melt with You
2011 · Executive Producer
Sweet Nothings
2011 · Writer
After-School Special
2011 · Writer
Raging Bull: Reflections on a Classic
2011 · Self
Sexting
2010 · Director, Writer
Panique aux funérailles
2010 · Director
Heavy Rain
2010 · Himself, Director
The Vicious Kind
2009 · Executive Producer
Cleanflix
2009 · Self
Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes
2009 · Self
Harcelés
2008 · Director
Tumble
2007 · Writer, Director
L'homme de paille
2006 · Director, Screenplay
Fausses Apparences
2003 · Director, Writer, Producer, Theatre Play
Posesión
2002 · Screenplay, Director
Bash: Latter-Day Plays
2001 · Director, Writer
Persiguiendo a Betty
2000 · Director
Your Friends & Neighbors
1998 · Director, Writer
Independent's Day
1998 · Self
In the Company of Men
1997 · Director, Theatre Play, Screenplay
High School Spirits
1986 · Kyle Skudstad
Tour de France
· Writer
This Is How It Goes
· Novel
