River's Edge

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DVD Features:

Rated: R
Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
Video: Color
Released: January 13, 2015
Originally Released: 1986
Label: KL Studios Classics
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Note: Audio commentary by director Tim Hunter

Original theatrical trailer

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:

Dolby Digital - English
Subtitles - English

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck & Dennis Hopper
Performer:		Leo Rossi, Jim Metzler, Joshua Miller, Roxana Zal, Tom Bower & Taylor Negron
Directed by		Tim Hunter
Screenwriting by		Neal Jimenez
Composition by		Jürgen Knieper
Cinematography by		Frederick Elmes
Produced by		Sarah Pillsbury & Midge Sanford
Executive Production by		Derek Gibson & John Daly

Entertainment Reviews:

New York Times - 05/08/1987
"...Hunter has an extraordinarily clear understanding of teenage characters....Acted with utter conviction by a fine and largely unknown young cast..."

Variety - 09/03/1986
"...Technically, [the film] is first-rate starting with the well-designed credit titles and continuing via the superior photography...[With a] fine music score..."

Los Angeles Times - 05/08/1987
"...When it's great -- as in Dennis Hopper's scenes -- passion boils over the edges....There's a lot of low-key poetry and nicely casual tension in Hunter's direction and in Frederick Elmes' cinematography..."

USA Today - 01/26/2001
"...Keanu Reeves is excellent....The movie has some of the creepy feel of Hopper's BLUE VELVET..."

Uncut - 11/01/2004
"[D]isconcertingly entertaining….The unsettling discordance is what keeps the film so strangely alive."

Product Description:

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.

Plot Synopsis:

A chilling and visually arresting drama that centers on a close-knit group of slacker teenagers who discover that one of their own has killed his girlfriend. Emotionally unprepared and ambivalent, they must struggle between friendship and responsibility before deciding to report the murder. Based on a real-life incident, this darkly disturbing portrait of amoral teens lost in a small town with no escape became an instant cult-classic. The excellent ensemble cast features Crispin Glover, Dennis Hopper, Ione Skye, and Keanu Reeves.

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Production Notes:

Screened at the World Film Festival in Montreal, Canada in August, 1986.
Theatrical release in New York City: May 8, 1987.
RIVER'S EDGE is based on a real life incident that occurred in Milpitas, California, in 1981.
Screenwriter Neal Jiminez wrote the screenplay for RIVER'S EDGE in 1981, but could not get financing for the project until 1987.
Additional cast: Josh Richman (Tony), Constance Forslund and Danyi Deats.
Additional credits: Richard Hanley (assistant director).
Co-produced by Palace.
Color by Metrocolor.
The film was primarily inspired by a real-life incident that took place in Milpitas, California in 1981.