We Are Your Friends

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We Are Your Friends

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2015,

1h 36m,

Drama/

Romance

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Young Cole Carter (Zac Efron) 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.

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Critics Consensus

We Are Your Friends boasts magnetic stars and glimmers of insight, but they're lost in a clichéd coming-of-age story as programmed as the soundtrack's beats.

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Max Weiss

Baltimore Magazine

Jun 12, 2016

2/4

Efron is a natural and likeable presence on screen and has proven to be a pretty decent actor in films like Hairspray and The Paperboy. But the problem with "regularness" is that, in the wrong hands, it's kind of dull.

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Charles Bramesco

Movie Mezzanine

Sep 3, 2015

1.5/4

In the line of succession for Channing Tatum's throne as Hollywood's go-to charismatic bro type, Efron's still pretty far down.

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

Aug 30, 2015

2/5

Bentley is on great form. If anything, though, he's too good. Every time he disappears, the music dies.

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Eric Langberg

Everything's Interesting

Aug 29, 2025

We Are Your Friends finds a generation and a country on the precipice of… something, a generation holding its breath while it wants to see what that something might be ... It's 2015, and we can tell the bottom is about to fall out of the world.

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Ankit Ojha

Cinema Elite

Jul 9, 2024

3/5

“We Are Your Friends” is, at the end of the day, a harmless movie that’s difficult to strongly recommend, but one I’d encourage readers to take on a spin once.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Apr 2, 2024

3/5

...like the central character featured here, We Are Your Friends has a bad reputation, but if you’re prepared to shut up and enjoy the music and some blissed-out visuals, it’s a surprisingly smooth ride...

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Albus S

Apr 25, 2019

The film suffers from what its predicts, failing to understand that music and movies are not just building from outside sounds, but also letting the inside sound come out.

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Draco P

Mar 20, 2019

A terrible movie,apart from the soundtrack,it tried to be the french movie eden,terrible first movie from max.

Kylo R

Mar 17, 2019

I just like it I felt the movie

Draco S

Feb 10, 2019

Interesting insight to an industry, with Zac Efron playing a likeable lead. It's nothing special, but enjoyable enough.

Feb 2, 2019

WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS is a great movie thatï¿ 1/2(TM)s mature yet doesnï¿ 1/2(TM)t take it self too seriously resulting in a fun movie with a light hearted story of hopes and aspirations ,with characters you are in invested in , a never boring story ,even though cliches are sprinkled throughout the film they are executed properly, WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS is an ,always entertaining ,never dull ,film with great music .

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Feb 2, 2019

It is a thought provoking movie with a great sound making at least me think of joy in life, search for oneself, the mood and drive i want to experience more often. It actually was the first time I've googled Zac Efron. One of the rare recent movies I want to play again the next day I've watched it for the firs time.

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Cole Carter

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Synopsis

Young Cole Carter (Zac Efron) 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.

Director: Max Joseph
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Liza Chasin
Screenwriter: Max Joseph, Meaghan Oppenheimer
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Co: Working Title Films
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Drug Use|Sexual Content|Some Nudity)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 28, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 28, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $3.6M
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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