Amongst Friends

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Amongst Friends

R

1993

1h 26m

Crime

Drama

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Three bored Long Island buddies (Chris Santos, Michael Leb, Christian Thom) seek excitement on the streets and get it, with dangerous results.

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Rated: C+

Sep 7, 2011

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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.

Rated: 2.5/5

May 20, 2003

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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.

Jan 1, 2000

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Quentin Curtis

Independent on Sunday

Rob 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.

Nov 29, 2017

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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.

Rated: C+

Apr 26, 2006

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Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

boring indie crap

Rated: 1/5

Feb 22, 2006

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Michael R

One of my all time favorite movies. I remember buying the bootleg on the streets in Manhattan back when it came out (purchased a legit copy later). It's too bad Weiss didn't stick to this genre. He had the vibe of Long Island and the low level crime characters to a tee.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/04/24

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John M

I enjoyed it kore than I thought I would. There are a few pointless scenes and some questionable acting but overall not bad.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/30/24

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Audience Member

Critics suck. This is an underground "have u ever seen" masterpiece. If u ever had good childhood friends in this atmosphere

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Audience Member

its awesome bad movie

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/05/19

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Audience Member

En "Amongst Friends" no hay grandes estrellas y la cinta es de bajo presupuesto, esta obra explosiva cinta es uno de los clásicos olvidados del cine de mafia. Llena de energía (y muy influenciada por el trabajo de Martin Scorsese), "Amongst Friends" es obligatoria para cualquier amante del género de gánsteres, del cual confieso, yo soy fanático.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

it was alright, nothing special

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Synopsis

Three bored Long Island buddies (Chris Santos, Michael Leb, Christian Thom) seek excitement on the streets and get it, with dangerous results.

Director: Rob Weiss
Producer: Matt Blumberg
Screenwriter: Rob Weiss
Production Co: Island World, Last Outlaw Films
Rating: R
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 29, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $242.2K
Runtime: 1h 26m
Sound Mix: Stereo