We Are Your Friends

Name: We Are Your Friends
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Released: August 28, 2015
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Alex Shaffer, Alicia Coppola, Emily Ratajkowski, Jon Bernthal, Jonny Weston

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: August 28, 2015 | R

Starring: Alex Shaffer, Alicia Coppola, Emily Ratajkowski, Jon Bernthal, Jonny Weston, Shiloh Fernandez, Wes Bentley, Wiley M. Pickett, Zac Efron

Summary: Set in the world of electronic music and Hollywood nightlife, an aspiring 23-year-old DJ named Cole (Zac Efron) spends his days scheming with his childhood friends and his nights working on the one track that will set the world on fire. All of this changes when he meets a charismatic but damaged older DJ named James (Wes Bentley), who takesSet in the world of electronic music and Hollywood nightlife, an aspiring 23-year-old DJ named Cole (Zac Efron) spends his days scheming with his childhood friends and his nights working on the one track that will set the world on fire. All of this changes when he meets a charismatic but damaged older DJ named James (Wes Bentley), who takes him under his wing. Things get complicated, however, when Cole starts falling for James’ much younger girlfriend, Sophie (Emily Ratajkowski). With Cole’s forbidden relationship intensifying and his friendships unraveling, he must choose between love, loyalty, and the future he is destined for.… Expand

Director: Max Joseph

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Music

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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David Ehrlich

Aug 25, 2015

[An] enormously fun late-summer surprise. Read full review

Gregory Ellwood

Aug 27, 2015

What makes “We Are” worth your time is Joseph’s skill in conveying the euphoria of dance music in the context of an actual movie. Read full review

Christopher Gray

Aug 26, 2015

As Zac Efront's Cole tiptoes away from his past, the film keenly observes a character who doesn't know how to secure his future, or his identity. Read full review

Justin Chang

Aug 25, 2015

We Are Your Friends” has its heart in the right place, and it’s shrewd and cuddly enough to get a few likes. But it would be an infinitely better movie if it sustained the sort of trancelike sonic ecstasy that turns fans into fanatics. Read full review

Ty Burr

Aug 27, 2015

It’s worth remembering that movies can have soul, too, if their filmmakers are willing to do the work to find it. Read full review

Brian Truitt

Aug 29, 2015

A plethora of beats drop but little else of note — musical or otherwise — happens in the Zac Efron DJ fest We Are Your Friends. Read full review

Steve Persall

Aug 26, 2015

The movie takes something primally appealing and attempts to explain it, fetishize it, turn it into something deeper and more dramatic than it is. Read full review

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aboshady

Aug 28, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. شراء الاثاث المستعمل بالرياض
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Real_g22

Jun 21, 2020

Muy entretenida y una historia que se siente muy real. Perfecta y traza un camino a nuevos djs

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inamor417

Oct 29, 2015

Basically the perfect summer movie, this lightweight drama has a great-looking cast and plenty of youthful energy, but not much authenticity or depth.

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PortugueseBeast

Sep 1, 2015

What I want to say is that the movie is actually good and they have good actors but the fact that Zac Efron isn´t a Dj doesnt help and the data of the realese and the propraganda were bad, since it was a movie about a dj they could have rent a stage on Ultra music festival.

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HaithamB

Aug 30, 2015

Featuring stellar performances but uneven drama, We Are Your Friends might be the perfect end-of-summer story, yet it suffers from card-board cutout, insufferable characters.

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GreatMartin

Aug 28, 2015

This is going to be a review of two films, the first being the movie I saw on the screen called “We Are Your Friends” and the movie I was making in my head called “Wes & Zac, Where From Here?”

“We Are Your Friends” is about a DJ, his 3 friends and electric dance music, learning more aboutThis is going to be a review of two films, the first being the movie I saw on the screen called “We Are Your Friends” and the movie I was making in my head called “Wes & Zac, Where From Here?”

“We Are Your Friends” is about a DJ, his 3 friends and electric dance music, learning more about the latter than I knew or need to know but, as I have found lately with a few movies, that is more a generation gap than anything else. Incorporated into the movie is a lot of ‘eye candy’ of both sexes along with a screenplay by the director Max Joseph and Meaghan Oppenheimer based on a story by Richard Silverman. It’s an old story offering very few surprises along with an unnecessary ‘aw shucks’ moment during the end credits. Joseph does add a few musical and southern Californian collages that are eye catching and like other films recently, including last week’s “The Diary of a Young Girl” plus last year’s “Birdman”, also uses animation.

Aside from his good looks Efron hasn’t impressed me yet with his acting though to be fair I have only seen him in 3 films and he does have an impressive scene talking about how a DJ works the crowd. His friends played by Jonny Weston who wants to be a club promoter, actor and drug dealer played by Shiloh Fernandez and Alex Shaffer as the hanger on nerd offer good support. Wes Bentley is a has-been DJ living off his past and has a younger girlfriend, Emily Ratajkowski, with the latter basically in the pretty girl role.

“We Are Your Friends” was an interesting movie from the point of view I knew nothing about how electronic computer music is made and, of course, nothing wrong with eye candy. It was also interesting for the ‘second movie’ I watched in my head.

When I saw Wes Bentley, September, 1999, when he was 21, in “American Beauty” I walked out thinking “Wow! This is the next generation’s Kevin Spacey!” For the next decade he descended into the world of drugs admitting he made movies only to make money for drugs. He is 37 today, has been clean since 2009 and between his appearance in a Broadway play in 2010 and playing Seneca Crane in “The Hunger Games” in 2012 he has been working his way back but he lost the momentum of stardom that pursued him 16 years ago.

Zac Efron had his breakout role in “High School Musical” in 2006 followed by the movie version of the Broadway musical “Hairspray” when he was 19 and 20. In 2013 at the age of 26 it was reported that he completed an alcohol and substance abuse program. Now at 28 will he have a decade unlike the one Bentley had? Did Wes talk to Zac and give him advice and/or did Zav ask Wes what happened and how could he avoid the same mistakes?

Now that’s a film I would like to see---and make!… Expand

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LilScience

Aug 4, 2020

Filme mediano, e de péssimo gosto, é um conjunto de tudo sem noção que acontece no meio de alguns 'jovens', como drogas, overdose, uma triste realidade, e que no filme se mostra confuso além de traições entre namorados, 1 ponto pela beleza do Zac efron

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