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Amongst Friends

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Amongst Friends (1993)

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Reviews Counted:9

Fresh:4

Rotten:5

Average Rating:5/10

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: The immaculate lawns and tree-lined streets of Five Towns in Long Island, New York are the setting for a new crop of Jewish gangsters. Three childhood friends forgo the privileges of their class in... The immaculate lawns and tree-lined streets of Five Towns in Long Island, New York are the setting for a new crop of Jewish gangsters. Three childhood friends forgo the privileges of their class in favor of the excitement of drugs and murder. Trevor returns home from prison after serving as a fall guy in a bust and rejoins his friends, weak-willed Andy and thrillseeker Billy. Under the guiding hand of an aging mobster, the would-be wiseguys betray one another to tragic ends. [More]

Starring: Steve Parlavecchio, Joseph Lindsey, Patrick McGaw

Starring: Steve Parlavecchio, Joseph Lindsey, Patrick McGaw

Director: Rob Weiss

Director: Rob Weiss

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Feb 15, 2005

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  • Called "fresh and powerful" by the New York Post, Amongst Friends is a fascinating and haunting portrait of friendship bound by money, power and greed.
  • Acclaimed director Rob Weiss delivers a powerhouse film in this action-packed, critically acclaimed portrayal of three young friends inducted into the fast lane of criminal life.
  • Billy, Trevor and Andy are three friends from a wealthy suburb who have everything they've ever wanted, except respect. When they discover the "small-time hustle" and the respect it commands on the street, they soon realize the games they once played as friends now have deadly consequences...and the price of success is betrayal.
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    06/24/06
    Geoff Andrew
    Geoff Andrew
    Time Out

    In this Jewish Mean Streets, Weiss substituts Scorsese's Italian lowlifes with upper-middle class Jewish youngsters who don't drift into crime but rather choose it consciously as a way of life.

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    04/26/06
    Emanuel Levy
    Emanuel Levy
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    boring indie crap

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    02/22/06
    Kevin Carr
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    05/24/03
    Channel 4 Film

    Mr. Weiss is more successful in introducing these people and setting them in motion than he is in allowing sharp, revealing details to emerge from the turmoil that surrounds them.

    Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
    05/20/03
    Janet Maslin
    Janet Maslin
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    01/30/03
    Mark Palermo
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    David Poland
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    Aims squarely for Scorsese-lite -- and that's precisely where it lands.

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    07/25/02
    Scott Weinberg
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    Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
    05/12/01
    Peter Travers
    Peter Travers
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    This Scorsese "Mean Streets" type of film has been done too many times and often much better than it was done here.

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    01/01/00
    Dennis Schwartz
    Dennis Schwartz
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    Amongst Friends would love to be a Mean Streets for the '90s, and its Long Island streets may be mean enough, but here they're barely semi-tough.

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    01/01/00
    Hal Hinson
    Hal Hinson
    Washington Post
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    In the final analysis, Amongst Friends works not because it's an expose of upscale, suburban violence and drug use, but because it takes the time to develop its characters so that the events which swirl around them involve us.

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