Peter's Friends

Film starts off on New Years Eve 1982 with a collegiate musical troupe giving their final bad performance. It cuts to 1992 where one of them named Peter (Stephen Fry) invites the whole group to his remote English castle for a... Full review

"Peter's friends" is a seemingly modest, delectable and almost quiet film about the people we become if we're lucky. It's one of those extremely rare reunion movies where very dissimilar characters are bound together by sincere friendship, not old resentments. As... Full review

You won't find a laugh track. Or even any side-splitting laughs. Its not slapstick, indeed most of the humor is directed ironically at the character who's making the self-deprecating comment. Its not really tragic - its a situation comedy of the... Full review

For those of us who have experienced countless "reunions" in our mature lives, there is much to recognize here. No matter what the year in real time, the more things change, the more they stay the same.This is basically an... Full review

This film has a great cast but is unfortunately let down by the direction. In my honest opinion Kenneth Branagh should not have directed this film. I think they should have chosen someone outside the group of very real friends... Full review

A lot of people seem to think the plot is particularly weak and that some of the character development is unrealistic, but I think it is quite effective. To fully appreciate why the characters behave the way they do (for... Full review

My wife and I fell in love with this film the first time we saw it in a small dingy cinema in Manchester, UK, on New Year's Day 1993.All of which made it more poignant for us, as the film... Full review

I have watched this film many times, and always love it. Very life affirming, ver funny, and a great soundtrack!!!!!!!!! All the actors are terrific.... Full review

I can watch Peter's Friends over and over without getting bored. The characters are about the same age I am, and my friends and I have shared many of the same experiences. The script is witty and clever, the characters... Full review

Watching this movie you come up with two thoughts: 1. Great ensemble, well acted and you can see the joy the actors must have had while making this. 2. Why didn't the screenwriters and director Branagh give the characters a... Full review

I won't post any spoilers here, but the denouement concerning Peter is telegraphed several times during the film and will catch virtually no one by surprise by the end of the movie. Jeeves and Wooster fans will be excited to see that Peter is played by Stephen Fry and friend Roger by Hugh Laurie, while Harry Potter fans will be delighted to see several instructors, including Branagh, Emma Thompson and Imelda Staunton turn up as others in the group. ... Full Review

The film deserves its R rating, for considerable sex, profanity, vulgarity and nudity. The film starts off with some very funny stuff, and among the appealing players, Branagh and Thompson stand out with well-drawn characters and witty dialogue. ... Full Review

Set to an infectious pop soundtrack (Cyndi Lauper, Tears for Fears) that effectively renders this the first '80s-nostalgia flick, Peter's Friends won't win over anyone looking for depth - as drama, it's pure popcorn - but the vignettes are swept along by Branagh's richly theatrical temperament and by the exuberant wit of the cast. ... Full Review

This includes her painfully tacky performance as a very successful, very screwed-up television star who's married to Branagh's Andrew, a very unhappy, very rich comedy writer. But the script, which was written by American comedian Rita Rudner (who also stars), is mostly a hodgepodge of stale show-biz stereotypes mixed with the brand of schmaltzy emotionalism that can be bought off the rack of any store on Rodeo Drive. ... Full Review

Peter's Friends" is not rip-snortingly brilliant. With a smattering of one-liners, and a dash of ironic spirit, "Peter's Friends" is a diverting, if modest affair. The character resolutions are too schematically contrived. ... Full Review

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The $27m (£15.3m) movie, which will have a cast of young opera stars, will begin filming in the UK in January. The pair, whose work together includes the 1992 Branagh-directed film Peter's Friends, are giving the opera a World War... ... Full Article

This comedy drama, a sort of British version of The Big Chill (1983), was directed by Kenneth Branagh . Ten years after they were members of a music and comedy troupe at Cambridge University, a diverse group of friends in... ... Full Article

Peter's Friends (February 8/08) Though the film has been suffused with a number of overwrought and downright melodramatic elements, Peter's Friends nevertheless comes off as a surprisingly entertaining little flick that benefits substantially from the almost uniformly stellar performances (co-writer... ... Full Article

Directed By: Kenneth Branagh Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Rita Rudner, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie This is not the type of film I had expected the multi-talented Branagh to make next; after the success of Henry V and the scissor-heavy... ... Full Article