Storyline
Young Cole Carter dreams of hitting the big time as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights hanging with buddies and working on the one track that will set the world on fire. Opportunity comes knocking when he meets James Reed, a charismatic DJ who takes the 23-year-old under his wing. Soon, his seemingly clear path to success gets complicated when he starts falling for his mentor's girlfriend, jeopardizing his new friendship and the future he seems destined to fulfill.
Directors
Cast
Wes Bentley, Shiloh Fernandez, Jon Bernthal, Zac Efron, Jon Abrahams, Molly Hagan, Vanessa Lengies, Alex Shaffer, Wiley M. Pickett, Alicia Coppola, Jonny Weston, Emily Ratajkowski, Daniel Pinder, Scarlett Benchley, Nev Schulman, Nick Rotteveel, Alessandro Lindblad, Miranda Rae Mayo, Rob Silverman, Brittany Furlan, Rebecca Forsythe, Joey Rudman, Kelsey Formost, Devon Barnes, Timothy Granaderos, Raleigh Adams, Kerry Stein, Ayden Mayeri, Andrew Bachelor, Dillon Francis, Jordan Frank
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Reviews
80
[An] enormously fun late-summer surprise.
70
We Are Your Friends is predictable, sometimes tacky, but the energy is unflagging, the eye candy plentiful and writer-director Max Joseph (making his feature debut after hosting MTV’s Catfish) brings sincerity and a skillfully modulated sweetness to the material.
63
Slant Magazine
As Zac Efront's Cole tiptoes away from his past, the film keenly observes a character who doesn't know how to secure his future, or his identity.
60
Zac Efron makes a convincing bid for movie stardom — and Ratajkowski proves she’s more than just a pretty face — in this flawed but fitfully entertaining film, even if it all goes a bit Pete Tong at the end.
60
Village Voice
Remake The Graduate today, and an adult might corner Benjamin Braddock and whisper, "Startups." Debut director Max Joseph gives that a good shot, though the result — the EDM-fueled, drug-laced dream-crusher We Are Your Friends — is so sweaty and silly people may not notice.
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