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is the kind of coming-of-era falsehood they made more often in the '80s and usually on network television. Rhys Wakefield stars as Thomas Mollison, a teenage boy who is forced to on the go to a new town with his unusual family. Mom Maggie (Toni Collette) is pregnant again and dad Simon (Erik Thomson) is a but original. But the veritable bond on all sides of Thomas' ankle, at least in his thinking remember, is his austerely autistic brother Charlie (Luke Ford). Charlie signs to yield and only grunts occasionally. He gave up speaking years ago and needs steady supervision. When Thomas lets him demode of his sight, he's mistaken down the thoroughfare in his underwear, barging into a townsperson girl's house to use the bathroom. The girl, Jackie (Gemma Ward), happens to be the end of Thomas' warmth at school. Can Thomas find love with Charlie always lurking in the CV, causing more and more expressive heartache for our hero?
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Rating: ONE AND A HALF BONES
March 6th, 2009
Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Toni Collette, Erik Thomson, and Gemma Ward
Elissa Down

Writers:
Elissa Down & Jimmy Jack

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Apparently intended to be some sort of “trip through the 1960s through the eyes of four disparate youths,” Four Friends is instead a series of barely connected dialogue explosions that never once come close to the insight and poignancy the filmmakers were shooting for. Odd that such an aggressively simplistic and push-button movie would spring from the collaboration of director Arthur Penn (Bonnie & Clyde) and screenwriter Steve Tesich (Breaking Away), but this flick must have been one of those well-intentioned pet projects that only got made because the filmmakers’ previous releases made money.

Putting aside the very few moments of effective humor and / or sincere character moments, practically nothing about Four Friends rings true. The screenplay is trite, tepid, and laden with rather abysmal sequences. (Wait till you see what happens at the end of Danilo’s wedding! Hoo boy.) Characters we’ve never met die in strangely tragic ways as the viewer sits back and wonders “Wait, was that someone I was supposed to care about?” The quaratet of ever-whining old pals seem to bump into each other every few years, but there’s little to no explanation as to A) where they’ve been, B) why they’re back, and C) why we should even give a wet slap.

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Set in the southern English town of Basingstoke — a byword for upper-middle-class respectability, and a close match to Hughes’ Chicago suburbs — the movie follows a group of teenage schoolchildren whose lives seem to unfold in a parallel universe to their parents’.

Chief among them is 16-year-old Steven (Ben Silverstone), whose best friend and confidante is dumpy neighbor Linda (Charlotte Brittain). She’s the only one who knows his terrible secret — he’s gay! — and, even worse, that he has the hots for the school’s leading jock, local rich kid Dixon (Brad Gorton).

Dixon, who’s the object of every girl’s dreams at the school, is dating blond goddess Christina (Louise J. Taylor), a local mail-order-catalog model. Imagine Steven’s surprise when, on a nervous expedition at a public toilet, Dixon turns out to be the guy with whom Steven has just exchanged a note through the wall of his stall.

In a beautifully written and played scene that sets the tone for the pic’s humorous treatment of its subject, the two youngsters sit on a park bench and react to the event: Steven, understandably, is in seventh heaven with the man of his dreams; all Dixon sees, however, is his cover blown and the jaws of hell suddenly opening up.

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Pic loses some of its comic momentum in the middle stretch, where the Steven-Dixon story hits choppy waters, but recovers its plot-driven shape after Steven submits an anonymous “I’m gay” essay to the school’s magazine. Ending maintains the feel-good tone, despite a somewhat obvious grandstanding of emotions at the climax.

Aside from its dry, understated humor, the most remarkable achievement of Wilde’s script is its dialogue, which exactly reflects the speech patterns of kids in respectable, middle-class southern England, rather than imposing some snappy cinematic version derived more from inner-city lingo. There isn’t a weak link in the cast (several of whom are first-timers), and ensemble work is fine.

Special kudos, however, goes to Brittain as Steven’s overweight confidante, and to Silverstone (”The Browning Version,” “Lolita”) as Steven in a perf that finds a perfect balance between teendom and maturity. Gorton is fine as hunk Dixon, and Hart good as Jessica. Only regret is the underdeveloped character of Wendy (Kate McEnery, daughter of Peter McEnery), a strong-minded schoolgirl who also carries a torch for Dixon.

Widescreen lensing by Alan Almond is a consistent delight, sharp and bright, and slyly comic use is made of several well-known songs on the soundtrack.

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A mindless film noir set in Arizona. The film it resembles most is
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gambler with bad luck. He’s faced with a situation where he must pay back
$32,000 to a vicious bookie called Chicago (Noonan), or else square the
debt by killing a prisoner he has in custody. His other option is that
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Chicago has a shaved head and talks like Sylvester the Cat with a lisp,
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In imitation of Pulp Fiction, there’s lots of frivolous talk. Liotta
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Johnson and of Dostoyevsky being a compulsive gambler.

Harry (Liotta) is a wise guy cop with a gambling problem, who is
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a strong-arm man for a loan shark/pimp called Louie (Esposito).
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Harry is a good guy with an honorable code of ethics and would be
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The main action takes place when the four rogue cops decide to knock
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safe. The film turns even nastier, as a series of double-crosses take place
and it becomes clear that the rogue cops have different reasons for pulling
the robbery. It leads to a violent shootout and with Harry throwing his
badge on the floor while on the run, but not before he squares all his
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his code: that he will never welsh on a bet or betray a friend.

The film has nothing to say that makes sense, the acting was forgettable,
the dialogue was trite, and all the characters seemed to be out to lunch.
It’s a film that will not rise from either its ashes or clichés.

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