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Friends and Family (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 8
Rotten:10
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Stephen and Danny are a gay male couple who are enforcers for a New York Mafia family. Stephen's parents, who know that their son is gay but not that he works for the Mafia, decide to pay a surprise visit, sending Stephen and Danny into a panic.... [More]
Starring: Tony Lo Bianco, Greg Lauren, Christopher Gartin, Tovah Feldshuh
Director: Kristen Coury
Reviews for Friends and Family
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10/02/02
You haven't lived until you've seen a bunch of straight goombas taking a crash course in swish history, the better to pose as employees of a catering company.
12/25/03
Is the movie finding its jokes in subverting the stereotypes or in the stereotypes themselves?
10/30/03
Makes the clobbering minds behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding seem the apotheosis of subtlety and nuance by comparison.
10/22/03
A passably entertaining comedy of accretion that doesn't amount to much.
10/03/03
There's no rhythm or style to any of it, just the dismal feeling that the filmmakers have seen La Cage Aux Folles and The Godfather too many times.
10/03/03
An overloaded, slow-moving series of predictable jokes and forced situations.
10/02/03
Top Critic First-timer Coury's fast pace can't outrun Joseph Triebwasser's predictable script, saddled with mobster clichés and queer stereotypes.
09/30/03
the making of Friends and Family must have been more than watching it, but not much more.
08/21/03
"The Sopranos" meet "La Cage Aux Folles," with a heavy and happy emphasis on humor which camps up the gay stereotypes.
07/30/03
Never thought I'd say this about a film, but it's just not gay enough. Wait to rent it.
06/27/03
Wants very much to mimic the screwball comedies of the forties with a gay twist, but the script and direction are simply too clumsy to carry it off.
06/20/03
The movie is slick, the boys are gorgeous, and most of it is innocent fun, but the romp is spoiled by the subplot in very bad taste.
06/20/03
Despite their missteps, first-timers Kristen Coury, as director, and writer Joseph Triebwasser create enough silliness to keep things amusing.
05/23/03
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Top Critic Director Kristen Coury has made a technically polished first film, but her sense of comic timing and sexual politics is strictly borscht belt.
05/14/03
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This was a great film!
by: Schwook 3/27/03
by: Schwook 3/27/03
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