River's Edge

Infobox Film | name = River's Edge


caption = Theatrical poster
director = Tim Hunter
producer = Sarah Pillsbury
Midge Sanford
writer = Neal Jimenez
starring = Crispin Glover
Keanu Reeves
Ione Skye Leitch
music = Jürgen Knieper
cinematography = Frederick Elmes
editing = Howard E. Smith
Sonya Sones
distributor = Ascot Video
MGM Home Entertainment
released = September 10, 1986 (Toronto Film Festival)
runtime = 99 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget = $1,700,000 (estimated)
amg_id = 1:41551
imdb_id = 0091860:"For the 1957 film, see The River's Edge.""River's Edge" is a 1986 American suspenseful drama/dark comedy movie starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye Leitch, Daniel Roebuck, and Dennis Hopper.

While the screenplay is fiction, it draws from the 1981 murder of fourteen year-old Marcy Conrad, who was raped and strangled to death by Anthony Jacques Broussard in Milpitas, California. Broussard later showed the body to at least thirteen different people; nobody bothered to report the crime. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091860/trivia River's Edge (1986) - Trivia ] ] [ [http://www.geocities.com/murder_stories4/rivers_edge_movie.html rivers_edge_movie ] ]

It was awarded Best Picture from the Independent Spirit Award in 1986. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091860/awards River's Edge (1986) - Awards ] ]

Plot summary

River's Edge is a cinematic portrayal of hopelessly delinquent youths, their unconscionable actions and the dysfunctional relationships, mind-numbing drugs and caustic environment that made them so. The teens' misplaced loyalties, disturbing indifference and deviant behaviour are set to a nihilistic heavy metal soundtrack.

A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth their reactions vary.Layne, the self-proclaimed leader of the group, is intent on keeping the murder a secret and protecting Samson, while the rest of the group (Matt, Clarissa, Maggie and Tony) want to go to the police. Matt's tough little twelve-year-old brother knows about the body and also knows which one of the five friends has been disloyal to Samson by telling the cops.

Cast

*Crispin Glover ... Layne
*Keanu Reeves ... Matt
*Ione Skye Leitch ... Clarissa
*Daniel Roebuck ... Samson 'John' Tollet
*Dennis Hopper ... Feck
*Roxana Zal ... Maggie
*Joshua John Miller ... Tim
*Josh Richman ... Tony
*Phil Brock ... Mike
*Tom Bower ... Det. Bennett
*Constance Forslund ... Madeleine
*Leo Rossi ... Jim
*Jim Metzler ... Mr. Burkewaite

Trivia

*According to the Internet Movie Database, most outdoor scenes were shot in and around screenwriter Neal Jimenez's hometown of Sacramento. Jimenez has stated that many of the film's characters were based on friends with whom he grew up.

*Then-independent California record label Metal Blade Records provided the metallic soundtrack, featuring artists from their roster like Slayer, Hallow's Eve and Fates Warning. Many reviews note the choice of music's effectiveness in conveying the brutal and detached existence of the characters.

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