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Three bored Long Island buddies seek excitement on the streets, with perilous results.
Leave your thoughts about Amongst Friends.
| Independent on SundayQuentin CurtisRob Weiss's Amongst Friends, a gangster rites-of-passage tale, owes much to Mean Streets and Goodfellas -- reminiscing voice-overs, bustling hand-held camera, boys bonding and boiling over -- but it has its own slender charm. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonIt's not a challenging movie or an original one, but it does have its pleasures -- most notably a radiant, soulful debut performance from Driver, who saves Circle of Friends from being merely an Irish ugly duckling story. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyIn 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. |
| User ReviewChad HOne of my all time favorites. Great music, good story line. Worth watching more than once. |
| User ReviewTomas LMy good friend Steve's movie, if you have not seen it, a must rent!! |
| User Reviewjessie eThis is a great if dated look at long Island life for three friends struggling to grow up and be more than Suburbanites. It predated American Beauty but has similar undertones of exposing the ugly underbelly of suburban utopia. |
| User ReviewLiza DI wanted that piece of shit to die so bad in the end after killing his friend. |
| User ReviewStevie Lhow often is there a great indie "gangster" movie? never. this has some flaws, but overall, fucking great. sure, i have a biased opinion as i grew up in that era on long island--- and it was all spot on. rob weiss went on to be one of the top writers on "entourage", so i hope that makes people rent and watch this. the writing, the fighting, and the details are wonderful... |