Product Details

• Actors: Matthew Modine, Michele Laroque
• Directors: Eddie O'Flaherty
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
• DVD Release Date: September 23, 2008
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001957A1W
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #39,778 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Neighbor" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Jeff, (Matthew Modine) a businessman and artist, watches as his life begins to unravel after learning his ex-wife is going to marry his best friend. To add to his distress, Christine (Michele Laroque), a feisty real estate developer who lives in the apartment above him, is bound and determined to acquire his apartment. Their unfriendly housing situation results in comedic screaming matches, small fires and lots of slamming doors. But fate has a plan for these two. Attempting to gain entry into his wife s wedding, Jeff agrees to move out on one condition: if Christine agrees to attend his ex-wife s wedding as his date. Happy to get rid of her long-time nemesis, she agrees to attend. But after a slow dance and a kiss at the wedding, Christine begins to rethink her renovation plans and Matthew realizes that Christine might just be the person with whom he can rebuild his life with.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars refreshing quirky romantic comedy!, December 20, 2008

By	Sante E Volve "Sante" (honolulu) - See all my reviews

The Neighbor (2007) with michelle laroque and matthew modine is a refreshing quirky romantic comedy with a beautiful mature french leading lady - and she has character lines on her face and is real - none of this hollywood plastic airbrushed perfection. It's so nice to find a movie to watch without the top 5 hollywood stars in. Let's see some fresh foreign faces for a change that give an alternative view on life, love and eternity.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A surprisingly good film!!, October 30, 2008

By	Movie Man "Movie Man" - See all my reviews

This was such a great movie! I really wasn't expecting much - it was a friend's choice. But the film has a really great feel to it. Its got a very satisfying quality to it. Matthew Modine is really good in this one. I don't want to spoil the movie, but there are also some really funny moments. I would watch this film again and again.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A good idea, bungled in execution, November 19, 2008

By	Zenith (Medford, MA) - See all my reviews

"The Neighbor" contains the germ of a good urban comedy, one which all city dwellers face: the obnoxious neighbor whose annoying habits are too close for comfort. The protagonist of the story is Christine, some sort of urban planner, who owns her condo and the one above it. As soon as Jeff, an artist and the tenant of the upstairs condo, moves out, she can renovate both units in time for her wedding to fiance Jonathan, an obnoxious type-A lawyer. Of course Jeff doesn't want to leave, and the battle of wills between the two of them is the plot driving the movie.

Unfortunately, the idea is better than the execution. French actress Michele Laroque plays Christine with Gallic efficiency, but I found it hard to warm up to her. She was perfectly competent, but didn't show much of an emotional range beyond mild exasperation, and I could not for the life of me understand why, halfway through the movie, she is suddenly attracted to her nebbishy upstairs neighbor, despite having despised him through the rest of the film. They have no chemistry together and nothing in the film presages this at all, so when it finally occurs, it just feels forced.

Matthew Modine, well known from "And the Band Played On" and other movies, plays upstairs neighbor Jeff, while Ed Quinn, who was so good as Nathan Stark on "Eureka," plays fiance Jonathan. I think these two actors were in the wrong roles. Matthew Modine's smug smile would have been more believable on the Type-A lawyer rather than the incompetent wreck upstairs, whereas the artsy-fartsy vibe that Ed Quinn gives off would have worked better on the artist. The only believable characters were Gina Mantegna, as Jeff's teenage daughter, and Ann Cusack, as Christine's best friend.

Set in Los Angeles, "The Neighbor" has some funny moments, such as why the margaritas are so salty, and what happens to Jonathan's eyebrows. However, this movie will make you a) glad you live alone, and b) glad you are single.