With Friends Like These

Four small-time, two-bit character actors, all close friends, compete for the same important part in the next Martin Scorsese mob film.

Cast

Bill Murray

as Maurice Melnick

Adam Arkin

as Steve Hersh

David Strathairn

as Armand Minetti

Amy Madigan

as Hannah DiMartino

Jon Tenney

as Dorian Mastandrea

Laura San Giacomo

as Joanne Hersh

Elle Macpherson

as Samantha Mastandrea

Robert Costanzo

as Johnny DiMartino

Beverly D'Angelo

as Theresa Carpenter

Michael McKean

as Maxwell Hersh

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