
Based on his play by the same name, Neil LaBute's script follows a nameless and successful but misanthropic and narcissistic writer who, on the eve of his wedding, travels across the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for past relationship transgressions. Crisscrossing from Seattle to Boston, he reunites with high school sweetheart Sam in Seattle, sexually free-spirited Tyler in Chicago, married English college professor Lindsay in Boston, his best... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on his play by the same name, Neil LaBute's script follows a nameless and successful but misanthropic and narcissistic writer who, on the eve of his wedding, travels across the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for past relationship transgressions. Crisscrossing from Seattle to Boston, he reunites with high school sweetheart Sam in Seattle, sexually free-spirited Tyler in Chicago, married English college professor Lindsay in Boston, his best friend's little sister Reggie in Seattle, and "the one that got away" Bobbi in Los Angeles. A modern-day Candide stumbling through a landscape familiar to most men-messy breakups.
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| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlA final twist stamps this as a companion or corrective to The Shape of Things, this time with the man as the monster. This isn't as bracing as that film, but it's far from the horror show LaBute's detractors often accuse him of writing. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe things that once made Neil LaBute's movies seem like tossed grenades — the loutish protagonists, the sadism toward women — now come off as more dated than scandalous. |
| AV ClubMike D'AngeloThe title’s parenthetical plural sums up the problem with Some Girl(s): Five slow-cook dialogues that reveal the nice-guy protagonist as a super-tool is four too many. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenThere are a lot of truthful notes in Some Girl(s), but there are also false ones that let you know that you are being played with. You’d best beware. |
| MetroSean BurnsMore canned misanthropy from Neil LaBute. Cut-rate Carnal Knowledge. |
| Film Comment MagazineCourtney DuckworthThe weight of dull clichés only makes the stilted dialogue harder to stomach. |
| Contactmusic.comRich ClineNeil LaBute adapts his bracingly astute play into a series of scenes that make us question how men and women ever come together to make a relationship work. |
| Canada.comKatherine MonkNeil LaBute may be the bravest writer currently working in motion pictures because he writes male characters who are undeniably loathsome. |
| Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonLike us, the deft and merciless director Daisy von Scherler Mayer ("Party Girl") sides with the girls, and to stack the deck she's hired five tremendous actresses. |
| Film ThreatDon SimpsonPenned by the incomparable Neil LaBute, Some Girl(s) is theatrical and contrived; to some, it might achieve some rather off-putting extremes of hyper-reality. |