River's Edge (Blu-ray) R
The most controversial film you will see this year.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 13, 2015
- Originally Released: 1986
- Label: KL Studio Classics
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:
[D]isconcertingly entertaining….The unsettling discordance is what keeps the film so strangely alive.
Uncut
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One of the most haunting films of the 1980s, River's Edge looks at a suburban, postpunk generation which has no causes, no morals, no feelings, and, worst of all, no future.
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TV Guide
...Technically, [the film] is first-rate starting with the well-designed credit titles and continuing via the superior photography...[With a] fine music score...
Variety
Rating: A- --
Based on an actual incident in Northern California, Tim Hunter's controversial indie addresses the growing alienation and moral vacancy among youths growing up in drug-oriented and media-saturated society; Keanu Reeves is perfectly cast.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: A --
A powerful sociological film on white teenage alienation in small-town America, that is even more amazing that it's based on an actual event.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...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...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Bitter and disturbing.
New York Times
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.