I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

With two films, this one and 'In the Company of Men' director Neil LuBute seeks to uncover the truth about the lives of disaffected people who's selfish and brutal cruelty toward one another is brought out of selfishness.What I find so interesting about the characters in YFAN is how selfish they are. They all go for their own impulses without ever looking where they leap. Why are they so smug? Probably because they have no idea what a meaningful relationship is all about. Sex for these people is a weapon and they use it to their advantage We get Ben Stiller as a guy who can't have a relationship because he is too ignorant to notice when he is acting like a jerk. Amy Brennemen plays a jilted housewife who can't seem to escape being treated like an object. Aaron Eckhart is the most pathetic character, a man who is more interested then pleasuring himself then his wife. Nastasia Kinsky plays a woman who seems to drift back and forth between men and women. Catherine Keener is a bisexual woman who wants sex but would appreciate her lover would either leave or just shut up.My favorite performance in the movie is by Jason Patric (yes he can act) as a self-satifyed stud who's cruelty sets most of the action in motion. He has the movie's best moment in which he tells a story from his past that is so intriguing that my friends and I were discussing afterwards if it was really true or not.So why see this movie? For the same reason that 'In the Company of Men' was so intriguing. He presents people unvarnished and imagines what cruel things they do to one another. We are allowed to peer inside their lives. He hits hard at difficult subjects and doesn't back away by giving us a happy ending.

Bad acting, bad writing, bad lighting, bad camera work, and lots of fake humping moments. Ugh! I think this is, perhaps, the worst film I've ever seen and that's saying a lot considering that I am a big Roddy McDowall fan which means that I have sat through a lot of schlock in my time waiting him to show up in the many, many bad movies he made during his later career. I wish McDowall had been in this film, at least I would have some excuse for having sat through it besides the fact that the dog was snoozing on my arm so I didn't like to disturb him by searching in the cushions of the couch for the remote control. Can you tell that I'm just typing away trying to get to the 10, (wait, spell it out, that's more characters) ten required lines for an IMDb review when I really said all I had to say about this film in the first two sentences of this review?

Like his debut, "In The Company of Men", Neil LaBute's "Your Friends and Neighbours" revolves around several disturbing relationships. David Mamet is again the chief influence, specifically Mamet's "Sexual Perversity in Chicago", "Edmond" and "Oleanna". Mike Nichol's "Carnal Knowledge" also seems to have inspired LaBute.The film charts the infidelities and affairs of six characters, all of whom are in unhappy relationships. Power games are played, dissatisfactions are raised and the the overall tone is one of extreme cynicism. Elsewhere LaBute reverses various gender stereotypes. One woman (Terri), for example, leaves her husband because he's too emotional and too vocal. She wants anonymous, dispassionate sex, and so hooks up with another character. This new relationship also proves unsuccessful. Another relationship involves married man Jerry leaving his wife for Mary, a frigid woman who blames herself for not being attracted to her self-absorbed husband. She then leaves both men for Cary, a misogynist and narcissist who uses and discards women and whose favourite sexual experiences involve the sadistic domination of boys. Again, this relationship concludes on a note of disappointment. Indeed, all the relationships in the film go from a point of dissatisfaction to extreme dissatisfaction. Nobody is content. LaBute's not interested in making a blanket statement, though (ie – everyone is unhappy and romantic contentment is impossible etc), but is interested in how personal dissatisfactions lead to projection, impotency, disconnection, frigidity and cruel games of domination. Unhappiness, in short, leads to blame and blame leads to either self-punishment or the punishing of others. Everyone in the film is the victim of both somebody else's apathy and (redirected) self hate. While the majority of LaBute's films and plays are attacked for being cruel and cynical – and perhaps their style/tone does undermine his intentions - the final message is always an appeal to compassion."Your Friends and Neighbours" is consistently riveting and features another excellent performance by Catherine Keener. The film as a whole, though, resorts too readily to shock tactics. It's like gazing at a car crash, the film far too proud of its twisted wreckage.8/10 – Worth one viewing

SPOILERS THROUGH: I first saw this movie after a friend recommended it to me. She knew I dug movies like "Closer" & "American Beauty" and told me this was a similar type of film. While I still think the other two are superior I did like this and found it to be a somber, provocative, performance driven multi character study and very interesting to watch.The six main characters were all played with excellence but sometimes in a film, there is one performer who walks away with the movie and in this case it is Jason Patrick. I must say this performance ranks up there as one that should have been awarded with an Aacademy Award but wasn't. Although all the characters are interesting, when Patrick is on screen he is just riveting. I first saw him, like so many movie buffs have, in "Lost Boys" and through the years have admired his performances in movies like "Rush" & "After Dark My Sweet". This is however, hands down, my favorite of his performances and I'm not sure I'd still be giving this film an 8 if he hadn't been in it.This movie is of coarse, about dysfunctional relationships and each performer brings something unique to the role their playing. I found the casting in general to be excellent and though most of the characters are dislikeable, their also interesting and one thing the movie does is get one's attention and keep it. The movie is extremely dialog driven and though it can drag at times, for the most part it stays extremely compelling to watch.Your friends & Neighbors reminded me of such movies as "Closer", "Sex,lies & Videotape" & "American Beauty", all of which I thought were superb. It also reminded me of the not superb but still intriguing "We don't live here anymore". And it even reminded me a bit of this year's "Friends With Money" which I liked a smidgen more then this. Although I did not think this was superb, it was well above average and very very good. If one likes any or all of the above mentioned movies chances are they will probably like this.The reason I did not think this was superb was because of a few things. One was the incomplete feeling I had about this film which I did not have about the above mentioned films I DID think were superb. For example,we, the audience, are not told a heck of a lot about any of these people and though we are exposed to their quirks and dysfunctional aspects, not much detail about them other then these aspects are provided. In some of these other films, I really did not have that feeling to the same degree. Also, The ending in my opinion, was weak when compared to the rest of the film although Brenneman's character ending up with Patrick's came out of left Field And genuinely surprised me.(I had thought at first Keener's character would wind up with him since she seemed to hate vulnerability in anyone she was romantically involved with.) I would have liked this movie to supply me with more detail on the characters of these people because there were to many loose ends and to strong an incomplete feeling at the end. I really had a difficult time with that and feel this should have been longer and a bit more structured.As far as the characters' themselves....well Keener's character was so dislikeable it was difficult to feel much toward her other then annoyance. Yet if the movie had shown more of her life other then telling her lovers to be quiet during sex, I doubt I'd have felt that way. Brenneman's character starts off dislike able but she gradually is developed as a lonely and perhaps depressed woman underneath the vivacity and Brenneman does a really good job with the part. (I think her performance is my second favorite.) Aeron Eckert is an amazing actor who's superb no matter what one sees him in and here he's no different. Stiller of whom I'm really not all that much of a fan, was very very good in a dramatic role and should be doing more dramatic material rather then playing almost the same role in in so many comedies. Natasha Kinski has not gotten as much recognition for her role but she should as her character was probably the most likable and had a sweetness and vulnerability that the others lacked, or perhaps wanted people to think they lacked. I actually though she came off as the most stable.I think in spite of the flaws, this was a really good movie with excellent Performances and my vote would be: see it, see it, see it! Although it's very dark, not very enjoyable at times and may leave one feeling a bit gloomy(or more then a bit) it's story and it's look at the darker aspects of relationships, is really really interesting and makes for kind of the anti sunny Rom com. Not romantic, not sunny, and definitely more then a little disturbing Your Friends & Neighbors is definitely not your typical movie. My vote's 8 of 10.