With Friends Like These

With Friends Like These (1998)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (14 reviews)

  • 33% of users liked it
    (59 ratings)

Life among insecure, middle-aged character actors, former New Yorkers in L.A., is the main plot focus of this Philip Frank Messina comedy about four friends who want the same role in the next Martin Scorsese gangster flick. Balding Johnny DiMartino (Robert Costanzo) is so excited by the news of a… More

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Philip Frank Messina
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 10, 1998 Wide
New Line Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

    The incessant betrayals and confidences become monotonous after a time, and the film sinks into the familiar swamp of suburban futility.

  • Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

    The movie works as well as it does because the cast knows the material so intimately.

  • Lou Lumenick, New York Post

    Only sporadically amusing.

  • Stephen Holden, New York Times

    At its best, Philip Frank Messina's show business comedy plays like a less acerbic, less Jewish triple episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

  • Peter L'Official, Village Voice

    Plot and characterization are drawn strictly off the rack.

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