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With Friends Like These (1998)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:7
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Johnny (Robert Costanzo) is an actor who makes his living playing television "bad guys." He lands a secret audition with director Martin Scorsese which could turn out to be his big break. When... Johnny (Robert Costanzo) is an actor who makes his living playing television "bad guys." He lands a secret audition with director Martin Scorsese which could turn out to be his big break. When Johnny's struggling actor friends find out about the private audition, they lie, cheat, and steal to get a piece of the action. Hollywood loyalty is put to the test when this group of friends do whatever they can to make-it big. Winner of the High Hopes Award at the Munich Film Festival 1998, Best Of The Fest Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 1998, and the Opening Night Film and Audience Favorite Award at the Palm Beach International Film Festival 1998. [More]
Starring: Adam Arkin, Robert Costanzo, Beverly D'Angelo, Elle Macpherson
Starring: Adam Arkin, Robert Costanzo, Beverly D'Angelo, Elle Macpherson, Amy Madigan, Laura San Giacomo, David Strathairn, Jon Tenney, Lauren Tom
Director: Philip F. Messina
Director: Philip F. Messina
Producer: Robert Greenhut, Amy Lemisch
Reviews for With Friends Like These
An accomplished farce populated by sly and knowing comedic performances.
The question of why this film is being re-released is superseded by the question of who would want to watch it.
The movie works as well as it does because the cast knows the material so intimately.
The incessant betrayals and confidences become monotonous after a time, and the film sinks into the familiar swamp of suburban futility.
At its best, Philip Frank Messina's show business comedy plays like a less acerbic, less Jewish triple episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Writer-director Phillip F. Messina's insider comedy about Hollywood almost-rans gives off an air of clammy desperation that feels all too authentic without being especially funny and bogs down early in repetitive shtick.
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