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Amongst Friends (1993)
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Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 5
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 5.1/10
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
Reviews for Amongst Friends
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.
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.
This Scorsese "Mean Streets" type of film has been done too many times and often much better than it was done here.
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.
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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