Playboy's 20Q Neil Labute

November, 2000

Playboy's 20Q Neil LaButethe maverick filmmaker defends the dark, worries about excommunication and derides easy dialogueIn the Company of Men (1997), Neil LaBute's first film, struck Hollywood with force. A movie that deals with male cruelty and corporate viciousness, the low-budget drama stars LaBute's college buddy Aaron Eckhart as one of two midlevel businessmen stuck for six weeks in an anonymous town. Frustrated at the state of their love lives, the two devise a plan to seduce---and then a...