Around the Fire

1998

Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 73% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 871 871

rehabilitation addiction coming of age drugs

Plot summary

Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton graduate. Crying out for attention from his reserved and cool hearted family, Simon commits numerous petty crimes and is soon sent away to boarding school where he befriends a "Deadhead," adopts the "hippie" lifestyle and dabbles in many drugs in his search for acceptance.

Director

John Jacobsen Photo
John Jacobsen

Top cast

John Pirruccello Photo
John Pirruccello as Joe
Colman Domingo Photo
Colman Domingo as Trace
Tara Reid Photo
Tara Reid as Jennifer
Rick Camp Photo
Rick Camp as Graduation Guest
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by murpz

Painful propaganda

This movie is disguised as some sort of hippie coming of age drama... but the sad truth is that this is just a thinly veiled bit of anti-drug propaganda. The soundtrack and watching Tara Reid be hot are about the only things going for this movie. Beyond that, the movie suffers from a predictable (and very bad) plot, stereotype characters, and cheezy dialog. It's like watching an After School Special that just drags on and on and on.If you are considering watching this movie... put on a Grateful Dead CD and download pictures of Tara Reid from the internet. You'll get all the good points of the movie without having to endure the painful "Drugs are bad, mmkay?" plot. If you don't already use drugs, listening to the dialog in this movie will drive you to drugs in an effort to kill the pain.
Reviewed by iprebo 6 / 10

An alright movie with a director who needs more credit.

The film "Around the fire" is a fairly plausible attempt at showing drug culture and how it can negatively affect a person's life. The true thing that this film lacked was script. Not an altogether bad script, but one that could have used more work.What, tradgically, does not get recognition is the direction of John Jacobsen. Jacobsen, who was working with two fairly unknown actors of the time, Devon Sawa and Tara Reid (who had some success earlier)used his skills as a director to truly pull the best performances from these young actors. Also Jacobsens direction in this film really parallels Mamet, in a way. He is a no-nonsense director who has not received the attention he truly deserves.
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