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Friends Don't Let Friends
USA 2017
produced by Lyndee Brown, Jamie S. Brown, Brittany Anne Woodford, Adam Fontana (executive), David Hafizi (executive), Samantha Itri Hafizi (executive), Pete Brown (executive), Sean Elcan (executive) for Brownwell Entertainment
directed by Jamie S. Brown
starring Brittany Anne Woodford, Kanin Guntzelman, Jake White, Jenny Curtis, Brendan McGowan, Mark Hatfield, Braden Joyce
written by Jamie S, Brown, music by John Stevens, creature design and special effects by Sascha Rost, special effects by Tai Tschudi
review by Mike Haberfelner
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When Chad (Kanin Guntzelman) wants to break up with Steph (Brittany
Anne Woodford), it drives her so over the edge that she strangles him to
death - and then she calls Dave (Jake White), who has been in unrequitted
love with her for years, and her only real friend Carrie (Jenny Curtis),
to help her bury the body in the desert. And Carrie brings along her
boyfriend Jeb (Brendan McGowan), who has never really trusted Steph. So
this sounds like a bit of an explosive mix from the get-go, but things get
worse when their car breaks down right after they have buried the body,
and when they walk back through the desert, the rifts between our heroes
start to break open and it's not long before they're at each other's
throats - and then they're back at the car again, apparently having gone
in a circle all these hours, only the car's ransacked, and they find a
camera with a tape that shows them burying Chad. What they don't know yet
though is Chad has come back to life as a sort of tree monster - and he's
more than a little pissed about having been killed and buried. And that's
not even the worst of our gang's problems ... Friends Don't
Let Friends probably sounds much more formulaic and indeed sillier
(tree monster!!!) than it is, as the whole film goes much deeper than
people arguing and running, it's about manipulation, loyalty, friendship
(and the frailty thereof), and everytime one thinks one has figured out
the plot, it twists and turns in an entirely unexpected way, up until the
reveal in the finale. And all of this works thanks to an intelligently
written script that is nevertheless tense and suspenseful enough to keep
one at the edge of one's seat pretty much throughout, and all of this is
carried by a solid and relateable cast and a subtle yet effective
directorial effort. Very cool genre entertainment, actually!
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