Your Friends & Neighbors Page #4

Synopsis: Theater instructor Jerry starts an affair with Mary, and that starts a chain of events that affect their respective partners Terri and Barry and other characters in the film, creating a web of relationships.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Neil LaBute
Production: Gramercy
  2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
R
Year:
1998
100 min
474 Views


- Fine, thanks.

- Is this part of a collection or...

- No, it's just a single piece.

- Nice, isn't it?

- Very.

- Your first time here?

- Uh-huh.

- You?

- No, I work here.

Work? Really? You're an artist?

No, artist's assistant.

That's terrific.

Hey, you don't have a gift shop, do you?

I want to buy my wife a little...

We're going away for the...

- No, I'm sorry.

- OK.

Listen, is it me

or is this whole thing sort of...

kinda out of whack?

No, I think it's you.

Really? Because it seems...

No, I'm sure of it. It's you.

How did you find this hotel?

- I asked around. One of the guys.

- Mm.

Maybe we should... try again.

No, I...

I really don't want to right now.

I'm hard though.

Firm. Just relax.

- You're whispering again.

- I'm sorry.

If it's me... I don't want to push this.

Yeah.

I know, yeah.

Harvard Med? Hmm.

Yeah, that's great.

Top of the class too?

Mm.

AIDS research. Super.

Well, hey... Wait a minute.

What the f***'s her name?

I mean, tits like that

have a name, correct?

Yeah? Well, you get right back to me.

OK.

Maybe it's just me,

but f***ing is f***ing.

It's not a time for sharing.

I don't care what anybody says.

Yeah, I feel the same way.

Editorial note to delete the word

"f***ing" before submitting story idea.

- You're saying what?

- I'm asking for the best you ever had.

Can you name her?

- The best?

- Yep.

- Why do you wanna know that?

- It's interesting.

- Come on, we're friends. Be honest.

- Well, what's your best?

- Hey, I asked the question.

- F*** you too.

If we're gonna be revealing,

let's be fair.

OK. Er...

- Mine would be my wife.

- Bullshit.

Nobody would pick their wife.

Except maybe on a talk show.

That's my answer,

and she's very good, so up yours.

Jesus.

OK. It'd be er...

The f***ing best? Why do I

always go first with sh*t like this?

- I just went.

- Go ahead.

Take a turn if you're so interested.

I just wanna hear yours.

You amuse me.

Listen to this cock. Suddenly

he's got big balls hanging out with us.

- What does that mean?

- Figure it out.

- We're just wondering anyhow.

- Yeah. But...

OK.

Fine. You wanna hear it?

Huh?

Senior year, gym class.

You guys have a co-ed gym?

No.

His name was Timmy Carter.

- Timmy?

- Isn't that a boy's name?

It was a guy

from my high school PE class.

My best f***.

- What?

- It's the truth.

It was almost spring vacation...

late March.

We'd had about all the sh*t

we could take from little Timmy.

He turned four of us in during

English exam earlier in the week. So...

when the coach is in the lounge

for a smoke,

we grab his ass,

drag him into the showers...

held him down, tore off his clothes...

and we each took a turn.

I mean, we actually did this guy

up the butt.

I mean, we were some crazy f***ers

at that age.

I was the last one.

So, I don't know if he'd given over

by this time or what, but...

Goddamn, it was...

nice.

How can I explain this? It's...

never been like that with a woman.

As many as I've f***ed, never.

Not even close.

He's face down.

And my friends

are holding him spread out.

Timmy and I are making love like we're

on some beach in the Mediterranean.

I kid you not.

F***.

It was amazing.

I feel him taking my rhythm,

clenching me off when I get too deep.

Sh*t, he did everything right.

And I know he came when I did.

I mean, I didn't check or anything

but I could tell.

I shouldn't even be

telling you guys, but...

F***, I've never known anything like it.

Ever.

Like I said, there wasn't

too much of the school year left.

Timmy dropped out. I guess.

I mean, he finished from home.

But goddamn him, he never turned us in.

He never said a word about it

to anyone.

I admired him for that.

But I think the reason he kept silent,

and I feel I'm right about this...

is that he felt something special

had happened as well.

Him and me.

Those other guys f***ed him

to teach him a lesson. But we...

I know something special happened.

Jesus. Are you making this up?

F***, no.

This happened.

I told you before, this is my life.

Yeah, but...

- Has he told you this story?

- No, it's great though, isn't it?

It's incredible.

You'd have taken the same steps.

Common decency dictated the whole thing.

I just didn't expect

to find somebody who, you know...

understood me, is all.

Anyhow, that's mine. Big deal.

At least I got one.

By the way, you guys are crazy

if you think you're getting out of here

without a little reciprocal.

Cos I'm tired

of the sycophantic bullshit here.

So let's hear some. I don't care who.

- I told you mine already.

- Fine. Bullshit.

But fine.

How about you? I think you can climb out

on a limb after what I just coughed up.

- No, I don't wanna.

- What?

- I'm not in the mood. I'm late.

- Well, f*** that and get in the mood.

You were ten minutes ago.

- Right, it's your turn.

- Come on.

Your favorite research assistant?

Fess up.

Seriously, I gotta get to rehearsal.

Go ahead. I thought you said

he was seeing somebody.

Oops.

Come on. Who is it this semester?

- Knock it off.

- Freshman or sophomore?

- What are you doing?

- What?

This is why I hate

when the three of us get together.

What?

You get together with him,

it's like you've had an a**hole pill.

We just want the truth.

I thought that was the whole idea.

- What is up with you?

- I just don't want to get into this.

You're not gonna shock us.

Not after what we just...

- So, go on.

- Yeah. Amuse us.

I know it's not

that snatch you live with.

Exactly.

You can talk.

It's not like you're in bed.

- What?

- You were the one complaining about it.

What did you call her the other day

when we were...

It had to do

with the feminine issue.

- F*** off.

- Come on, we're friends. Be honest.

OK, the best f*** I ever had,

that'd be your wife, that was the best.

That beats my story.

- Hey.

- Hey.

- You're home early.

- Yeah.

You guys have fun?

Yeah, it was good.

- You're smoking again.

- Oh, you know, it's just the one.

- If you're hungry, there's...

- No, I'm fine.

- You OK?

- Yeah.

Sh*t.

"Hold me."

Is this your work phone?

Oh, your office there. Yeah, I remember.

Great. I just...

had it written down here

with something else.

Right. Maybe you gave it over lunch.

I... I don't remember.

Anyway, you're good?

How's... Terrific.

Listen, like I said,

I kinda just called by accident,

but you wanna get salads or something?

Answer, answer.

Answer. Sh*t.

You're a tramp.

A prick-f***ing teaser.

I don't mind saying it to your face.

You come out and I'll say it

right in your face.

Oh, God!

You lied to me!

Right to my own f***ing person!

I'm serious. You are not a nice woman.

I mean, who in the f*** just gets

their period all of a sudden?

It just doesn't happen.

And it's happened all over my bedding.

But, no, you knew that.

And you're twisted to have planned this.

I hope you have

one of those red biohazard bags.

Cos you just bought yourself

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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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