With Friends Like These...

Name: With Friends Like These...
Genre: Comedy
Released: March 12, 1999
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 54

1999

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Miramax Films | Release Date: March 12, 1999 | R

Summary: What happens when you're an actor and you get a secret audition with Martin Scorcese? If you're Johnny (Robert Costanzo), who makes a living playing television hit men and corrupt cops, this could be your big break. But when his struggling actor friends Dorian (Jon Tenney), Steve (Adam Arkin) and Armand (David Strathairn) find out about theWhat happens when you're an actor and you get a secret audition with Martin Scorcese? If you're Johnny (Robert Costanzo), who makes a living playing television hit men and corrupt cops, this could be your big break. But when his struggling actor friends Dorian (Jon Tenney), Steve (Adam Arkin) and Armand (David Strathairn) find out about the audition, there's no telling how far they'll go to see Scorcese and keep it a secret from Jimmy.… Expand

Director: Philip Frank Messina

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 105 min

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Victor Minjares

An entertaining, clever look at the backstabbing actors do in search of recognition and fame. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

The perennially insecure world of two-bit character actors is humorously and knowingly explored in With Friends Like These. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Originally released seven years ago on home video, is only now surfacing as a theatrical release. Although it's no classic, it's a cut or two smarter than the average Hollywood comedy. At its best, it plays like a less acerbic, less Jewish triple episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (review of re-release) Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

The movie works as well as it does because the cast knows the material so intimately. (review of re-release) Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Only sporadically amusing. (review of re-release) Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Gives off an air of clammy desperation that feels all too authentic without being especially funny and bogs down early in repetitive shtick. (review of re-release) Read full review

Peter L'Official

Messina's characters gripe at being typecast as goombah hit men, yet the director seems blissfully unaware that he dooms them to the very fate they protest by painting them with such prosaic, uninspired strokes. (review of re-release) Read full review

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