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Synopsis: While visiting an art museum, a nerdy college student named Adam meets an iconoclastic artist named Evelyn and is instantly smitten. As their relationship develops, she gradually encourages Adam to change in various ways that surprise his older friends, Jenny and Philip. However, as events progress, Evelyn's antics become darker and darker as her influence begins to twist Adam and his friends in hurtful ways.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Neil LaBute
Actors: Gretchen Mol, Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Frederick Weller
Production: Focus Features
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
59
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
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Year:
2003
96 min
$662,763
2,847 Views

It's a sick f***in' joke,

but it's not art.

Is that right?

Pretty much, yeah.

And if I'm wrong about that...

I mean, if I've completely

missed the point here,

and somehow puking up...

all your own shitty little neuroses

all over people's laps is actually art,

then you ought to at least realize

there's a price to it all.

Wow. Okay, so...

you're saying...

I should be a better person?

I mean, is that it?

That's the nutshell, yeah.

Better like... you?

No.

Just better.

Oh.

Tell me, though,

just one thing.

Yes?

Was any of it true?

The, uh, nose job...

or Lake Forest?

Your mother's maiden name?

One thing you ever said to me?

No.

And the scars are...

That was another project.

I got it.

Sorry.

I should, uh,

probably get going.

Are you coming?

No, not yet. Don't worry.

I'm not gonna mess up your stuff.

No spray paint.

That one time...

in my bed one night

when you leaned over...

and whispered in my ear...

remember?

- And I whispered back to you. I said that I...

- I remember.

I meant that.

I did.

- Yeah?

- Yes.

Oh.

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Neil LaBute

Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter, and actor. 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. He wrote and directed the films Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Possession (2002) (based on the A.S. Byatt novel), The Shape of Things (2003) (based on his play of the same name), The Wicker Man (2006), Some Velvet Morning (2013), and Dirty Weekend (2015). He directed the films Nurse Betty (2000), Lakeview Terrace (2008), and the American adaptation of Death at a Funeral (2010). LaBute created the TV series Billy & Billie, writing and directing all of the episodes and is also creator of the TV series Van Helsing. He also directed several episodes for shows such as Hell on Wheels and Billions. more…

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