Amongst Friends (1993)
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27% of critics liked it
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14% want to see it
(755 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
Critic Reviews
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures
boring indie crap
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Cast
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Steve Parlavecchio
as Andy
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Joseph Lindsey
as Billy
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Patrick McGaw
as Trevor
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Mira Sorvino
as Laura
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Michael Artura
as Michael
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Frank Medrano
as Vic
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Louis Lombardi
as Eddie
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David Stepkin
as Jack Trattner
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Don Damico
as Louis
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Martin Haber
as Jack's Crew
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Peter Papageorgiou
as Young Wiseguy
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Michael T. Weiss
as Drug Dealer
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Peter Traina
as Arson
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Rob Weiss
as Bobby
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Michael Ringer
as Sal
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Stan Schwartz
as Arnie the Jeweler
- Brett Lambson
- Patrick Mc Gaw
- Matthew Hennessey
