Four Friends (1981)

Quotes about Four Friends: [[friends] A charming, heartfelt, sometimes insightful look at four ] who form strong bonds while in high school in the early 1960s, and then desperately cling to that love during the turbulent social upheavals that marked the end of the decade. Unfortunately, Four Friends attempts to cover so much ground that at times the film becomes frustratingly muddled. … Though Four Friends runs out of gas toward the end, it's filmed with obvious love for the characters and features outstanding performances from the underrated Wasson, Thelen and Simon. Well worth seeing.

Quotes about Four Friends: [[w:My Dinner With Andre|My Dinner With Andre; [w: Andre Gregory|Andre Gregory; [wonders; [alive; [television; [thoughts; [times; [past; [agony; [freedom; [love; [wonder; [remembers; [society; [critics; [truth; [bad; [dream; [good] Somewhere in the middle of ], ] ] aloud if it's not possible that the 1960s were the last decade when we were all truly ] — that since then we've sunk into a bemused state of self-hypnosis, placated by consumer goods and given the illusion of excitement by ]. Walking out of Four Friends, I had some of the same ]. This movie brings the almost unbelievable contradictions of that decade into sharp relief, not as nostalgia or as a re-creation of ] ], but as a reliving of all of the ] and ] of the weirdest ten years any of us is likely to witness. … The movie is ambitious. It wants to take us on a tour of some of the things that happened in the 1960s, and some of the ways four midwestern kids might have responded to them. It also wants to be a meditation on ], and on how love changes during the course of a decade. … The ] is not that Four Friends covers so much ground, but that it makes many of its scenes so memorable that we learn more even about the supporting characters than we expect to. … this is a movie that ] times past with such clarity that there are times it seems to be making it all up. Did we really say those things? Make those assumptions? Live on the edge of what seemed to be a ] gone both free and mad at once? Some ] have said the people and events in this movie are not plausible. I don't know if they're denying the movie's ], or arguing that from a 1980s point of view the 60s were just a ] ]. Or a ] one.