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Amongst Friends (1993)

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Director Robert K. Weiss gives a good accounting of himself in his first feature-length effort Amongst Friends. The film is set in an affluent Long Island neighborhood, the home of boyhood chums Patrick McGaw, Steve Parlavecchio, and Joseph Lindsey. With too much time on their hands, the kids turn to crime for "kicks". Events snowball into a climactic life-or-death drug deal, which threatens to end in disaster when one of the boys capriciously pulls a double cross. Barely released in 1993,

R, 1 hr. 35 min.

Drama

Directed By: Rob Weiss

On DVD: Feb 15, 2005

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Cast

Steve Parlavecchio
Andy
Joseph Lindsey
Billy
Patrick McGaw
Trevor
Mira Sorvino
Laura
Michael Artura
Michael
Frank Medrano
Vic
Louis Lombardi
Eddie
David Stepkin
Jack Trattner
Don Damico
Louis
Martin Haber
Jack's Crew
Peter Papageorgiou
Young Wiseguy
Michael T. Weiss
Drug Dealer
Peter Traina
Arson
Rob Weiss
Bobby
Michael Ringer
Sal
Stan Schwartz
Arnie the Jeweler
Brett Lambson

Critic Reviews for Amongst Friends

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (8) | DVD (1)

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.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

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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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews

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James Berardinelli

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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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Hal Hinson

Washington Post

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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.

April 26, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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