Friends and Family (2001)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 10
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 964
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Two Mafia gunmen give new meaning to the phrase "keeping it in the family" in this offbeat comedy. Danny (Christopher Gartin) and Stephen (Greg Lauren) are a pair of mob enforcers who see to it that no one crosses the Family and lives to tell about it. However, Danny and Stephen are hit men with a difference -- they're also lovers; and while they know how to get rid of troublemakers, little things like cooking and sewing are not their strong suits. They find themselves thrown for a loop when
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Cast
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Christopher Gartin
Danny Russo -
Greg Lauren
Stephen Torcelli -
Tony Lo Bianco
Victor Patrizzi -
Beth Fowler
Ada Torcelli -
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Tovah Feldshuh
Alma Jennings -
Pat Collins
Matt Jennings -
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Anna Maria Alberghetti
Stella Patrizzi -
Meshach Taylor
Bruno -
Louis Zorich
Marvin Levine -
Allison Mackie
Cheryl -
Edward Hibbert
Richard Grayson -
Bruce Winant
Senator Pete Bloomer
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All Critics (21) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (10) | DVD (2)
Which is worse? Lame jokes about gays or lame jokes about the mob?
Top CriticThere's no rhythm or style to any of it, just the dismal feeling that the filmmakers have seen La Cage Aux Folles and The Godfather too many times.
An overloaded, slow-moving series of predictable jokes and forced situations.
First-timer Coury's fast pace can't outrun Joseph Triebwasser's predictable script, saddled with mobster clichés and queer stereotypes.
Predictable fun, but fun all the same.
Painless, sweet comedy.
You haven't lived until you've seen a bunch of straight goombas taking a crash course in swish history, the better to pose as employees of a catering company.
Is the movie finding its jokes in subverting the stereotypes or in the stereotypes themselves?
Makes the clobbering minds behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding seem the apotheosis of subtlety and nuance by comparison.
A passably entertaining comedy of accretion that doesn't amount to much.
the making of Friends and Family must have been more than watching it, but not much more.
"The Sopranos" meet "La Cage Aux Folles," with a heavy and happy emphasis on humor which camps up the gay stereotypes.
Never thought I'd say this about a film, but it's just not gay enough. Wait to rent it.
Wants very much to mimic the screwball comedies of the forties with a gay twist, but the script and direction are simply too clumsy to carry it off.
The movie is slick, the boys are gorgeous, and most of it is innocent fun, but the romp is spoiled by the subplot in very bad taste.
Despite their missteps, first-timers Kristen Coury, as director, and writer Joseph Triebwasser create enough silliness to keep things amusing.
It's a dreary, 'when will it end' Birdcage rip-off.
Director Kristen Coury has made a technically polished first film, but her sense of comic timing and sexual politics is strictly borscht belt.
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