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River's Edge | 
| Director: Tim Hunter
Actors: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, Dennis Hopper
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: Video
List Price: $14.95
Buy Used: $2.70
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 32797
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original Recording Reissued, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0792847059
UPC: 027616853813
EAN: 9780792847052
ASIN: B00004WIBC
Theatrical Release Date: May 8, 1987
Release Date: October 3, 2000
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Condition: VHS TAPE INSIDE A HARD PLASTIC CASE/BOX CUT TO FIT. EX LIBRARY. WORKS GREAT/LOOKS GREAT. WE GUARANTEE OUR PRODUCTS. FAST SHIPPING
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
This disturbing little film is even more unsettling when you think about the fact that it's based on an actual case. Troubled teen Samson murders his girlfriend Jamie for no particular reason, leaves her nude body by the river's edge, then brings his friends to see the corpse to prove he did it. They look at her, prod her, and talk about her, but no one seems to manage to feel anything. River's Edge is ultimately a study of kids who are so numbed by drugs, casual parenting, and the ever present threat of nuclear war that not even death can get a rise out of them. A young Keanu Reeves is surprisingly poised as Matt, the one character with a few shreds of empathy left. His quiet performance is powerful enough to hold the audience's interest even with Crispin Glover and Dennis Hopper both being as crazy as they can be. Glover steals much of the movie with his whacked-out performance as Layne, the group's leader. He undercuts his teen alpha-male power with a nervous giggle, and the spin he puts on much of his dialogue manages to be scary and funny at the same time--after hiding Jamie's body for Samson, he complains: "You'd think I'd at least rate a Michelob!" River's Edge is not necessarily a pleasant movie, but it is certainly a compelling one. --Ali Davis
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| Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 Back to the eighties August 23, 2007
O. Solevag (Norway)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
You want acting? Try another movie.
You want hair and clothes from the eighties. Try this one.
This is the high school movie for the not-so-pretty youth. Happy memories of younger days. And the references to Easy Rider are hilarious.
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