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River's Edge

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River's Edge
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R,1hr 39min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
May 8, 1987
Director:
Tim Hunter
Distributor:
Island
Starring:
Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye  ...more
Synopsis: The nude, strangled body of a teenaged girl lies on the edge of the river. Her murderer is her boyfriend, Daniel Roebuck. All the kids in Roebuck's dismal, dead-end town know who committed the murder. Trouble is, no one bothers to turn Roebuck in; some of the teens don't know how to react to the crime, while others, strung out on drugs and booze, just don't give a damn. A study of contemporary alienation, River's Edge was based on a real-life incident that occurred in Milpitas, California, in 1981. ... Full Synopsis
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Brendon Hanley, AMG Review
Tim Hunter's 1987 The River's Edge arrived a few years after the disaffected teen pictures of the late 1970s and early 1980s, such as Foxes, The Outsiders, and the Hunter-scripted Over the Edge. These films were cautionary tales inspired by the proliferation of drugs, sex, and parental negligence, and their tone was reminiscent of the restless-youth pictures of the 1950s. River's Edge, on the other ... Full Review
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Crispin Glover
Layne
Keanu Reeves
Matt
Ione Skye
Clarissa
Daniel Roebuck
Samson "John" Tollette
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