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River's Edge

Movie
1986
1h 40m
R
English
Thriller, Drama, Crime
User Score: 
6.8
Critic Score: 
81
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A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
Rivers Edge Poster

River's Edge

R
Movie
1986
1h 40m
English
Thriller, Drama, Crime
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
Rating
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6.8
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River's Edge (1986) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
81

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Directed By: Tim Hunter
Written By: Neal Jimenez

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blakepatterson says...
3 years ago
My favorite teen drama. A powerful portrait of rebellious youth amid moral decadence in the eighties.
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moonkodi
CONTAINS SPOILERS7/10  8 years ago
I read this film was loosely based on a true case. This could have been a better psychological journey for the characters but they were too bleak and lifeless, which is apparently the point. The Tim character bothered me because it was too unbelievable for a child to be so immoral and desensitised t More
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John Chard
5 years ago
Did the sight of this dead girl move you in any particular way?

River's Edge is directed by Director: Tim Hunter and written by Neal Jimenez. It stars Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, Dennis Hopper, Joshua John Miller, Roxana Zal and Josh Richman, Music is by Jürgen Knie More
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