betty dalton This is a tragicomedy about sex. You know just plain sex. Oh yes and it is about love too. But sex and love get mixed up alot in this funny flick. Could sound like a raunchy movie but it isnt. No nudity whatsoever. Just plain talk. No dirty talk however, that is too say if the "F" word isnt taboo in your life. (I originally mentioned this word in the title and I forgot that in america this word is forbidden. That's hilarious for european people. You can say f*ck wherever you want in ALL the european media). Dont get me wrong, this is a comedy and a very sophisticated one, because it lays bare all the pain that couples and first dates go through when sex just isnt what was expected. No therapeutic talk. No, no, just a barage of mutual complaints between lovers that sex with eachother is a disaster. Still they keep living with eachother, repressing their frustration, without coming to some resolve. Wow. This summary must sound seriously depressing. But the movie really isnt. It is truly the most honestly and funny movie I have seen which discusses sex taboos many couples dont dare speak about. Director Neil La Bute has a recurring sexuality theme in many of his movies. And I think "Friends and Neighbours" is one of his best, because of the sheer openminded talk about SEX. Some might find it whining, which it is, but it is done in a very humorous manner, if you can appreciate that sort of tongue in cheek humor. Have a good laugh about what everybody is afraid to talk openly about. Last but certainly not least, I forgot to mention the great actors. Everyone performs at the top of their talents. This is truly a serious piece of acting work, with very hilarious sexual collisions between men and women.

leonblackwood Review: I quite enjoyed this simple but witty movie about a group of friends who are unhappy with there sex lives. It's very well written and all of the performances are great by the all star cast. The director made it entertaining by intertwining each characters stories with each other. You really don't know what is going to happen from one scene to the next, which made it unpredictable and interesting. It really does show that you don't need a massive budget to make a good movie. Watchable!Round-Up: It amazes me how much people can change with a load of money. Ben Stiller has obviously had a severe teeth job and Aaron Eckhart looks much better without that terrible moustache. Jason Patric has disappeared from the limelight since that terrible Speed 2 movie which was such a disappointment. Catherine Keener looked extremely young and her career had been going from strength to strength with movies like Captain Phillips and the Croods. Anyway, the movie has something for everyone, even though it's really old.I recommend this movie to people who are into there comedy/romance/dramas about a group of friends trying to improve there sex lives. 5/10

rumfoord Your Friends & Neighbors is a film about six middle class people plagued by dysfunction and unhappiness. These people do and say things that are awkward, immoral, and nearly always familiar enough to make you cringe. They cheat, lie, and hurt each other--not so much with callousness, but with sad disregard.It's not escapist entertainment, but the film manages to evoke some thought and ambiguous feelings without feeling emotionally labored or difficult. In fact, the normalcy of the characters make it something like an easy to watch soap opera featuring distillations of all those things in real life you'd prefer to forget.Your Friends & Neighbors is also wonderfully cast. Patric's pathological character is a stand out (bearing strong similarity to Eckhart's character in "In the Company of Men"), but with the exception of Kinski, all of the actors manage to captivate us in varying ways--from Brenneman's introverted reactions to Keener's profoundly cold mannerisms.This is an excellent film that might not always be well received but can and should be watched by anyone open to a cynical view of humanity.

ellisonharlan This is basically the filmed dissatisfaction of upper-class yuppie life. These are people who have everything but seem to live in a swamp of self loathing and hateful arrogance and selfishness. Their tart, affective interplay is like watching a game of mumbletypeg, but with words. These are the kind of people you would not want to live next door to, but these are the people who usually seem to win in our society, sad as that is to ponder.Jason Patric plays the single most evil person in movie history. His 'shower scene' is sick, twisted, but oddly humorous. You hate yourself for laughing, which is the point. In that way you understand how these people are born. They are us.This is arrogant mall culture, the kind of American decadence the Soviets warned us about. At least they were right about that.The film is about how creeps become dissatisfied at their own creepiness. Great dialog, the ending makes complete, yet sad, sense. Our world is mad, and we need to change it, before it eats us whole.