Writer of OVER THE EDGE Tim Hunter and Jonathan Kaplan, the director, have several things in common... the first is what both are the most vocal about: their fathers were blacklisted in the 1950's... and yet they also had wealth, privilege and a way into show business because the blacklist didn't last forever, as anyone who saw Sol Kaplan's name on every STAR TREK episode and... anyhow...
Both are also very talented, especially Kaplan as director, beginning with Roger Corman and then taking the perfect amount of economical filming styles and combining them with the greatest of teen angst exploitation, which turned into OVER THE EDGE, which needed a documentary...
But this is one of those horribly filmed Covid-era slap-togethers with people interviewed on Skype and Tim Hunter in particular never stops whining about his youth... and we should ALL be as lucky as he was, for a short period, unlucky.
Both are also very talented, especially Kaplan as director, beginning with Roger Corman and then taking the perfect amount of economical filming styles and combining them with the greatest of teen angst exploitation, which turned into OVER THE EDGE, which needed a documentary...
But this is one of those horribly filmed Covid-era slap-togethers with people interviewed on Skype and Tim Hunter in particular never stops whining about his youth... and we should ALL be as lucky as he was, for a short period, unlucky.