A first film in the tradition of Martin Scorsese's MEAN STREETS, AMONGST FRIENDS is self-consciously gritty and skillfully put together, but ultimately shallow. Childhood friends Billy (Joseph Lindsay), Trevor (Patrick McGaw), and Andy (Steve Parlaveccio) are bad little rich kids; a
bully, a sensitive dreamer, and a resentfully passive bystander, respectively. They're the Long Island reared sons of doctors and lawyers who reject their parents' mainstream values and aspire to be petty thieves like their grandfathers, the bookies and bagmen who lived to see their children
achieve suburban respectability and to tell their grandchildren what bores they became.
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Released:
1993
Rated:
R
Length:
102 mins