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Release Date:
8 May 1987 (USA) moreTagline:
The most controversial film you will see this year.Plot:
A high school slacker kills his girlfriend and shows off her dead body to their friends. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 5 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Our Favorite Summers: 1987 (From Cinematical. 8 May 2009, 6:03 PM, PDT)
Cold Off The Presses: Ione Skye And Ben Lee Wed
(From Actress Archives. 11 January 2009, 7:37 PM, PST)
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Chilling and effective examination of alienation and ambivalence more (87 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Crispin Glover | ... | Layne | |
| Keanu Reeves | ... | Matt | |
| Ione Skye | ... | Clarissa (as Ione Skye Leitch) | |
| Daniel Roebuck | ... | Samson 'John' Tollet | |
| Dennis Hopper | ... | Feck | |
| Joshua John Miller | ... | Tim (as Joshua Miller) | |
| Roxana Zal | ... | Maggie | |
| Josh Richman | ... | Tony | |
| Phil Brock | ... | Mike | |
| Tom Bower | ... | Bennett | |
| Constance Forslund | ... | Madeleine | |
| Leo Rossi | ... | Jim | |
| Jim Metzler | ... | Mr. Burkewaite | |
| Tammy Smith | ... | Kim | |
| Danyi Deats | ... | Jamie |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
99 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
StereoCertification:
New Zealand:R18 | Iceland:16 | Singapore:M18 | Finland:K-16 (video rating) (1988) | Australia:R | Canada:R (video rating) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16Fun Stuff
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Neal Jimenez based the characters on friends he went to school with in Sacramento, California moreGoofs:
Continuity: In the opening of the movie, the younger brother throws his sister's doll off a bridge. We see a completely different doll hit the water below. moreSoundtrack:
Tormentor moreFAQ
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Tim Hunter made a masterful film in River's Edge, one of the most serious and thoughtful dramatic studies of teenage life I have ever seen. So many elements of the film have a cult following (chief among them the performances of Crispin Glover as Layne and Dennis Hopper as Feck) that I will comment on my own personal favorite moment: the harrowing sex scene between Matt (Keanu Reeves) and Clarissa (Ione Skye). Entwined in sleeping bags with a six pack while police search for their good friend, the two try to find respite while the overwhelming events of the day coil into a vacuum of solitude and silence experienced by children who have sex without knowing each other or themselves. Some will argue that Hunter is heavy-handed with the close association of sex and death, but to see Matt writhe helplessly under Clarissa while elsewhere John (Daniel Roebuck) describes to Feck what it was like to strangle his girlfriend always sends chills up and down my spine.