IMDb plot summary: After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.
Directed by Peter Yates. Starring Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, and Richard Jordan.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle stars Robert Mitchum as a convicted thief who is awaiting sentencing and trying to give law enforcement enough tips that he can get a lighter deal. We follow him as well as several of friends planning criminal jobs and trying to evade capture. This is another one of those movies that taps into one of my general peeves about crime movies: so many of them cast people who look way, way too similar so I can't tell them apart. Granted, I am a little face blind, but when you have plot character threads going and all of them feature generic looking young white men with dark hair, it's going to be easy to lose me. It took a good two thirds of the movie for me to even really settle into what was the primary plot and what I was supposed to be following, and while the ending is kind of an interesting one, it wasn't really worth the much less interesting rest of the story.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Friends of Eddie Coyle < The Ghost and the Darkness
The Friends of Eddie Coyle > Barry
The Friends of Eddie Coyle < She Loves Me
The Friends of Eddie Coyle > Bobby
The Friends of Eddie Coyle < Another Thin Man
The Friends of Eddie Coyle < Dreamgirls
The Friends of Eddie Coyle < Little Women (1933)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle < Brainscan
The Friends of Eddie Coyle > Burning Annie
The Friends of Eddie Coyle < Nine (2009)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle < Paint Your Wagon
The Friends of Eddie Coyle > Benedetta
Final spot: #2566 out of 3748, or 32%.
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