behind the nostalgic music and we see a young boy get off a train. he is arriving from yugoslavia to meet his father and a man he has not seen in a decade. at the train station and we meet the man. he never smiles. thus and we begin our journey into four friends and arthur penn powerful and amazing film. you may ask why i began my review that way. well and that is the way the video box describes the film. you may have figured out that the film will be the story of the boy trying to get along with this emotionless man and eventually and he will peel away at his cover and expose the kindness. well and if you bought that and i have got a bridge i want to sell you. you see and modern hollywood would make that film. penn has always been an outsider and has never resorted to typical cliched storytelling. he always tells interesting stories about people (his credits include bonnie and clyde and the chase and alice restaurant and the underrated mickey one) and four friends is no exception. a typical hollywood film would focus on the boy who is named danilo. but steve tesich script only focuses on that for about 4 minutes and then abandons him. we meet the adult danilo and played by craig wasson (whom you may recognize from body double and nightmare on elm street 3) and his friends and tom and david and the passionate georgia. the movie takes us throughout the sixties. now in a lesser film and the events would receive the attention. but in four friends and these events happen and but penn and tesich is more concerned with character study than plot and i think the film is better that way. we know the events while we do not need to dwell on them again. i know i haven not described much of the plot and but i do not know if you can describe four friends. it not one of those high concept films that can be described in a single sentence. it a film of many moods and textures. it also a genuinely emotional experience. the final twenty minutes of this film moved me to tears. i am not ashamed to admit it. rarely does a film have such power that it can reduce me to tears. the acting is first rate and especially by craig wasson and who seems to be one of the most underused actors working today. this is such a difficult and emotional performance and wasson pulls it off. he should have received an oscar for this. another great performance is by jodi thelen and who has an even more difficult role than wasson. but she handles it extremely well and gives georgia a certain dignity most hollywood actresses do not (they would be too scared to even try while they would be more concerned with image rather than giving a great performance while that not what acting is about). she also deserved an oscar. four friends do not receive much of a push in 1981. maybe people just do not have the emotional capacity to handle it. and clueless executives couldn not push it as another american graffiti (it lacks the wallop of four friends). so they let it die. too bad and for this is one of the very best films of the 1980s and a decade where more and more slick trash was created and great art like this was without a home. i ask you to give this film a chance. out of 4 stars. 
behind the nostalgic music and we see a young boy get off a train. he is arriving from yugoslavia to meet his father and a man he has not seen in a decade. at the train station and we meet the man. he never smiles. thus and we begin our journey into four friends and arthur penn powerful and amazing film. you may ask why i began my review that way. well and that is the way the video box describes the film. you may have figured out that the film will be the story of the boy trying to get along with this emotionless man and eventually and he will peel away at his cover and expose the kindness. well and if you bought that and i have got a bridge i want to sell you. you see and modern hollywood would make that film. penn has always been an outsider and has never resorted to typical cliched storytelling. he always tells interesting stories about people (his credits include bonnie and clyde and the chase and alice restaurant and the underrated mickey one) and four friends is no exception. a typical hollywood film would focus on the boy who is named danilo. but steve tesich script only focuses on that for about 4 minutes and then abandons him. we meet the adult danilo and played by craig wasson (whom you may recognize from body double and nightmare on elm street 3) and his friends and tom and david and the passionate georgia. the movie takes us throughout the sixties. now in a lesser film and the events would receive the attention. but in four friends and these events happen and but penn and tesich is more concerned with character study than plot and i think the film is better that way. we know the events while we do not need to dwell on them again. i know i haven not described much of the plot and but i do not know if you can describe four friends. it not one of those high concept films that can be described in a single sentence. it a film of many moods and textures. it also a genuinely emotional experience. the final twenty minutes of this film moved me to tears. i am not ashamed to admit it. rarely does a film have such power that it can reduce me to tears. the acting is first rate and especially by craig wasson and who seems to be one of the most underused actors working today. this is such a difficult and emotional performance and wasson pulls it off. he should have received an oscar for this. another great performance is by jodi thelen and who has an even more difficult role than wasson. but she handles it extremely well and gives georgia a certain dignity most hollywood actresses do not (they would be too scared to even try while they would be more concerned with image rather than giving a great performance while that not what acting is about). she also deserved an oscar. four friends do not receive much of a push in 1981. maybe people just do not have the emotional capacity to handle it. and clueless executives couldn not push it as another american graffiti (it lacks the wallop of four friends). so they let it die. too bad and for this is one of the very best films of the 1980s and a decade where more and more slick trash was created and great art like this was without a home. i ask you to give this film a chance. out of 4 stars. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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