Neil LaBute has written and directed this obscure black comedy focusing on the complexities of office politics, male pride, hatred and rivalry. Twisted, perhaps painfully honest, In The Company Of Men so impressed the jury at 1997's Sundance Film Festival that it ran off with the coveted Film-maker's Trophy. What begins as a sick, misogynist's game winds up as a portrait of the battle between two inflated male egos in the workplace, a cerebral mêlée, in which the victim is nothing but a pawn. On balance, this may be what LaBute is getting at, but the office machinations are rudely swept aside by Chad and Howard's fascinating misogyny.
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