Some Velvet Morning (film)

Some Velvet Morning is a 2013 American drama film directed by Neil LaBute and starring Alice Eve and Stanley Tucci.

[2] Set entirely inside a rowhouse located in Brooklyn, New York City, and taking place in real time featuring a cast of only two people: a middle-aged lawyer named Fred (Stanley Tucci) surprises his beautiful young mistress Velvet (Alice Eve) by arriving at her doorstep after four years, claiming to have finally left his wife.

The film received mixed reviews upon release, with Jason Di Rosso from ABC Australia saying that the audience was "treated with utter contempt by the director and his accomplices".

[5] Chuck Bowen of Slant Magazine wondered "why LaBute was ever taken seriously as a so-called dramatist of the gulf between the sexes" and called the film a "prolonged exercise in resentful gender stalemating", giving it half a star out of five.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Some Velvet Morning marks writer-director Neil LaBute's welcome return to the mode of challenging chamber piece, but this misanthropic two-hander is too slight to produce the same bite as the filmmakers' best works.