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River's Edge (1986) | User Rating
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Release Date
May 8, 1987 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 23, 2001
Budget $1,700,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 39 minutes
Country USA
Studio Hemdale
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Other Titles
• River's Edge
• Das Messer am Ufer (1987)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Murder, Teenage, Disturbing, True Story, Drugs, Police, Thieves, Coming Of Age, Psychodrama, School / Campus, Cult Classic, Melodrama
Plot: Based on a real life incident, this disturbing drama serves as a seminal study of disillusioned and alienated youth. Set in a small rural town, the local clique of slacker teens is pulled apart when Samson (Daniel Roebuck) kills his girlfriend on the banks of the river and then callously shows off the dead body to his friends. The teens are so numb and ambivalent to the reality of their situation that they remain relatively unphased by the murder of one of their own. Crispin Glover is brilliant as the drugged out paranoid, Layne, who sympathizes with the killer, and plots to hide him at the house of an eccentric recluse (Dennis Hopper), who is rumored to have comitted a similar crime in the 1960s. Keanu Reeves and Ione Skye co-star as Matt and Clarissa, two friends who are drawn together in their realization that something is horribly wrong. In this startling portrait of a morally void society, director Tim Hunter creates a remarkable world of dysfunction and dead-end lives that is haunting in its accuracy.
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| Directed by |
Tim Hunter
Control, The Saint of Fort Washington, Beverly Hills, 90210 |
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| Written by |
Neal Jimenez
For the Boys, The Dark Wind, Where the River Runs Black |
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| Cast |
Crispin Glover
Back to the Future, Charlie's Angels, What's Eating Gilbert Grape |
 | Keanu Reeves
The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions |
 | Ione Skye
Wayne's World, Say Anything..., Four Rooms |
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| Music By |
Jürgen Knieper
The Sky Above Berlin, The American Friend, Christiane F |
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