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Article: `Possession'.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2002
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Byline: Steven Rea
What do you call a much-praised playwright and filmmaker whose work has drawn charges of misogny and misanthropy and who suddenly goes all soft and icky, directing his ardent thespians to say stuff like "I just wanted to see if there's an `us' in you and me" and _ really, sans irony _ "You take my breath away"?
You call him Neil LaBute, the prickly chronicler of sexual politics in "In the Company of Men" and "Your Friends and Neighbors, who, as the unlikely co-writer and director of "Possession," has foisted on the world a "French Lieutenant's Woman"-like romance. A bad "French Lieutenant's Woman"-like romance, it should be added, ...