Amongst Friends (1993)

27% of critics liked it
(11 reviews)
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(842 ratings)

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… More 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, Amongst Friends will probably get more play in future years thanks to the presence in the cast of Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed By: Rob Weiss
Genres: Drama

On DVD: Feb 15, 2005
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

Janet Maslin, New York Times
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.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
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.
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures
boring indie crap
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
Aims squarely for Scorsese-lite -- and that's precisely where it lands.
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
This Scorsese "Mean Streets" type of film has been done too many times and often much better than it was done here.