Amongst Friends

Amongst Friends (1993)

When Crime is a Way of Life, You Never Know if You're Amongst Enemies...or Amongst Friends.

Andy, Billy and Trevor are three friends living the life of privilege on Long Island. Out of boredom, the inseparable trio are drawn into the action of the of the gangster criminal world inhabited by Andy's bookie grandfather.

Date of release
1993-11-03
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Rob Weiss

Casting

Interesting facts

Amongst Friends is a 1993 film written and directed by Rob Weiss and starring Patrick McGaw, Joseph Lindsey, Steve Parlavecchio, and Mira Sorvino.

Production

The film was produced for $900,000, most of which was raised from friends and family, and was shot on location in the Five Towns. With finances tight, a scene in which Weiss opens a bag of Doritos was filmed using yellow cardboard triangles.

Mira Sorvino was hired to work on the film in pre-production as third assistant director, then was promoted to casting director, then to assistant producer, and was finally offered a lead role. Positive reviews received for her role in the film helped jump start her career. Her grandfather, Ford Sorvino, appears in the film, providing comic relief.

Director Rob Weiss, a native of Baldwin, New York on the South Shore of Long Island, which is close to the Five Towns, emphasized that the characters in the film are fictional, but acknowledged that "I'm going to try to hide during the Five Towns screening."

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