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Actors: Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen, Michael Huddleston, Jim Metzler, Reed Birney, Lois Smith
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Four Friends |
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This film, written by Steve Tesich, was produced and directed by Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) in 1981.
It relates ten years of the life of four friends who got to know each other in the suburbs of East Chicago at the beginning of the sixties. Danilo is an immigrant who arrived from Yugoslavia 10 years earlier with his mother to join up with his father, a blue collar, Tom also belongs to a family of blue collars and David is the son of the Jewish undertaker of the neighborhood. The three boys are all in love with the same girl, Georgia, who dreams to become a ballet dancer and innocently flirts with them.
At the end of the schoolyear, Georgia decides to lose her virginity with Danilo but, because of his hesitations, will finally lose it with Tom. Danilo, desperate, goes to New York to attend university. Three years later, Danilo attends the wedding of Georgia and David. However, the young woman is pregnant from Tom who must leave the country to fight in Vietnam. The four friends separate again and Danilo sees Georgia again only at the time of his own marriage when, during a dramatic climax, his father-in-law kills his wife, wounds him seriously and finally commits suicide. When he leaves the hospital, Danilo decides to return to Chicago to become a blue collar in a steel factory like his father. He starts to regularly patronize the Yugoslavian immigrants's circles but when Georgia returns unexpectedly to Chicago, Danilo is ready to give up everything to marry her. But Georgia, once again, pushes him back, tells him she has still a lot to do in life before getting married and leaves again for New York.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Four Friends |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love triangle/polygon
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Main Char. ethnic: (if not US Caucasian)
- Eastern European
Woman/class/friends story?
- story of group of friends
Story of city/rural life?
- Big City
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- blue collar
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- another color
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) fat
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Chicago
Misc setting
- beach
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
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