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Amongst Friends (1993)

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 4

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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

Feb 15, 2005

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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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 | Comment
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 | Comment
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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 | Comment
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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 | Comment

boring indie crap

February 22, 2006 Comment
7M Pictures

Aims squarely for Scorsese-lite -- and that's precisely where it lands.

July 25, 2002 Comment
eFilmCritic.com

This Scorsese "Mean Streets" type of film has been done too many times and often much better than it was done here.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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A personal favorite.

December 25, 2007
ileo
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A merciless whipping of an experience, this movie chewed my balls and then spit them in my face. Fuckin' review assignments for Chud.com.

March 5, 2005
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