 The following year Eckhart starred in another LaBute feature , Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ) , as Barry , a sexually frustrated husband in a dysfunctional marriage . For the role Eckhart was required to gain weight . In 1999 he starred opposite Elisabeth Shue in Molly , a romantic comedy @-@ drama in which he played the self @-@ absorbed brother of an autistic woman who was cured by surgery . Eckhart also starred that year as a football coach , an offensive coordinator in Oliver Stone 's Any Given Sunday . 
