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Kill Your Friends

Kill Your Friends

Comedy · Crime · Thriller · 2015

A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where 'no one knows anything' and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. Fuelled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox lives the dream, as he searches for his next hit record.

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Kill Your Friends

“Lies. Betrayal. Murder. Just another day in the music industry.”

2015 Comedy · Crime · Thriller 1h 44m

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6.0 / 10

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A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where 'no one knows anything' and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. Fuelled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox lives the dream, as he searches for his next hit record.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Owen Harris

Written by

John Niven

Nicholas Hoult

Nicholas Hoult

Steven Stelfox

Craig Roberts

Craig Roberts

Darren

Georgia King

Georgia King

Rebecca

Tom Riley

Tom Riley

Parker Hall

Jim Piddock

Jim Piddock

Derek Sommers

Edward Hogg

Edward Hogg

DC Woodham

James Corden

James Corden

Roger Waters

Court is in session

Put Kill Your Friends on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Adrenaline Seeker

“It owes the canon nothing.”

The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”

It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.