As stated by Andrew below, this movie evokes Neil LaBute's works. The difference is that this movie has real thinking, feeling, breathing, fragile characters, as opposed to the unlikable allegorical cartoons that populate LaBute's works. The performances in "Hurlyburly" are fabulous all-around. It's hard to imagine that two scene-stealers like Penn and Spacey can do a great scene together, harder to imagine that Shandling steals every scene from them!
Highly recommended, especially for those who want to like LaBute but think his movies are crap (like me).
Highly recommended, especially for those who want to like LaBute but think his movies are crap (like me).