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The Shape of Things (2003) | User Rating
(26 votes) | Critic Rating
(11 reviews) |
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Release Date
• USA: May 9, 2003
• UK: 28 Nov 2003
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 23, 2003
Budget USD 4,000,000
Official Website:
The Shape of Things Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language and some sexuality.
Running Time
1 hour, 36 minutes
Country USA, France, UK
Studio Focus Features, Pretty Pictures, StudioCanal, Working Title Films
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Shape of Things
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Genre: Drama, Black Comedy, Love Triangle, School / Campus, Psychodrama
Tagline: Seduction Is An Art
Plot: Rachel Weisz, Paul Rudd, Gretchen Mol, and Frederick Weller star in Neil LaBute's adaptation of his own stage play, which also featured all four actors. The film focuses on the unlikely romance between precocious art grad student Evelyn (Weisz) and shy English undergrad Adam (Rudd). As their relationship progresses, the unhip, bookish Adam is brought out of his shell by the spontaneous, opinionated Evelyn. Soon Adam is losing weight, wearing contact lenses instead of glasses, and dressing more fashionably than before. However, Adam's changes begin to affect his longtime friendship with the optimistic, attractive Jenny (Mol) and the cocky, smug Philip (Weller), who are now engaged. Soon the four become involved in a variety of uncomfortable entanglements, ultimately leading to a disturbing revelation.A welcome return to form for LaBute after the period-piece detour of POSSESSION, THE SHAPE OF THINGS finds the provocative director-screenwriter back in the darkly comedic vein of his first two films, IN THE COMPANY OF MEN and YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. Whereas those two movies focused on the ruthless and manipulative side of the male psyche, this film features a woman carrying out the same sorts of questionable acts of cruelty. As LaBute's film goes from sweet to sadistic, it
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Challenges the mind as well as expectations, but also produces laughter and smiles B+--Lee Tistaert (Lee's Movie Info)
The Shape of Things is the kind of movie that'll leave you talking and thinking about it for hours afterwards, and for that alone, it deserves some recognition.--David Nusair (Reel Film Reviews)
Brutal, sexy and astonishingly acted, The Shape Of Things is a piteously well-observed exploration of depthless desire and compromised characters; scouring the surface of things to reveal our reflection. Superb.  --Nev Pierce (BBC Films)
Well-acted and deliberately stagey, this is a controversial, typically misogynistic tale from writer-director Neil LaBute that is certain to divide both critics and audiences alike.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
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| Directed by |
Neil LaBute
Nurse Betty, In the Company of Men, Possession |
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| Written by |
Neil LaBute
Nurse Betty, In the Company of Men, Possession |
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 | Paul Rudd
The 40 Year Old Virgin, Romeo + Juliet, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy |
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 | Fred Weller
The Business of Strangers, When Will I Be Loved, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York | |
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