Queens Logic

Queens Logic is a 1991 American ensemble coming-of-age comedy-drama film from Seven Arts Pictures starring Kevin Bacon, Linda Fiorentino, Joe Mantegna, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Malkovich, Ken Olin, Chloe Webb and Tom Waits.

This film depicts a cohort of Astoria, Queens[2] working-class, now-thirtysomething childhood neighborhood friends confronting their history together and their future, while behaving both like children and mature adults, and both deceiving and revealing.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film "fans the flames of its characters' dissatisfaction only to put them out again, which makes it more tidily circular than surprising"; she did, however, commend the "big and eminently watchable cast, brought together for ceaseless partying and clowning".

[4] Roger Ebert gave it two-and-a-half stars, compared it to a number of other coming-of-age films and those set in the Brooklyn-Queens area, and remarked that "the screenplay by Tony Spiridakis introduces a large gallery of characters in no apparent order and then moves casually among their stories".

Spiridakis, and director Steve Rash ("The Buddy Holly Story"), and an uncommonly gifted cast, obviously want us to feel the juice of old friendships, recapture the special street dirt, rhythm and nervy intimacy of Queens itself.

[7]Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader said of the film, The form and the material couldn’t be more familiar: a bachelor party in Queens that brings together several working-class childhood friends, very much in the manner of something like Diner.

What makes it sparkle is the cornucopia of actors' shtick provided by the talented cast: Joe Mantegna, John Malkovich, Kevin Bacon, Linda Fiorentino, Tom Waits, Ken Olin, Chloe Webb, and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Steve Rash directed Tony Spiridakis's script as if we haven't already received its gist countless times before, and the actors somehow managed to follow suit.

"[10] Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of the website Spirituality & Practice called the film "a deft snapshot of men who cannot unravel the mystery of women or free themselves from the male bonding of their adolescence.

[12] Christine Spagnuolo, an intern at the Queens Chronicle, lauded the film in a June 24, 2015 essay, praising the multi-borough scope of the film's shooting locations, and adding that "well-known actors such as Kevin Bacon and Jamie Lee Curtis embodied the characteristics of nitty-gritty, ordinary people and a realistic Queens attitude that most people who grew up in the area are able to relate to.