Four Friends (1981)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Arthur Penn

Writer:

Steve Tesich (writer)

Release Date:

11 December 1981 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

All the boys love Georgia...and Georgia loves all the boys!

Plot:

This story of four working-class kids in a small industrial town--who go their separate ways after high...

Plot Keywords:

High School | Wedding | Pregnancy | Immigration | Love

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe.

Cast

Craig Wasson	...	Danilo
Jodi Thelen	...	Georgia
Michael Huddleston	...	David
Jim Metzler	...	Tom
Scott Hardt	...	Young Danilo
Elizabeth Lawrence	...	Mrs. Prozor
Miklos Simon	...	Mr. Prozor
Michael Kovacs	...	Prozor Neighbor
Beatrice Fredman	...	Mrs. Zoldos
Pier Calabria	...	Conductor
Zaid Farid	...	Rudy
David Graf	...	Gergley
Felix Shuman	...	Principal
George Womack	...	Mr. Bellknap
Todd Isaacson	...	Senior Kid

Also Known As:

Georgia's Friends

Runtime:

114 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Sweden:15 (original rating) | West Germany:12 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

Cinema 77

Trivia:

Filmed on the campus of Northwestern University (Evanston IL).

Goofs:

Factual errors: Danilo watches Apollo 11 moonwalk on TV at Tom's house in the afternoon. In reality, the moonwalk began at shortly before 11 pm Eastern Daylight time. This would be 10pm in the Central time zone, well after dark in the Chicago area (even in July).

Quotes:

Georgia: I love you like the Pilgrim loves the Holy Land, like the wayfarer loves his wayward ways, like the immigrant that I am loves America, and the blind man the memory of his sighted days.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Arthur Penn (1995)

Soundtrack:

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A very fine film, too easily overlooked

This is one of the best presentations of the 60's put on film. Arthur Penn, director of Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man, saw that Steve Tesich's outstanding script rang with truth, and from these two talents comes solid cinema. Jodi Thelin's Georgia Miles gives male viewers a hit of pained nostalgia for the archetypal beauty who is almost within our grasps, but, always just out of reach. Just see it, or you cinematic education will be incomplete.