River's Edge

River's Edge

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

Genre: Crime, Drama
Stars: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck
Production: Island
  4 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
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R
Year:
1986
99
2,686 Views

Layne:
Why did you kill her?

Samson:
She was talking sh*t.

Layne:
The *things* I do for my *f***ing* *friends*.

Layne:
I'm gonna put another quarter in this machine and take over the f***in' universe.

Tim:
You pothead f***brain.

Clarissa:
I hear they're having an open-casket funeral for Jamie. I think that's in bad taste.

Tony:
It is in bad taste. This whole episode is in bad taste. You young people are a disgrace to the human race. To all living things, to plants even. You shouldn't be seen in the same room with a cactus.

Mike:
N-O spells nuh-uh.

Layne:
This is like some f***in' movie. Friends since second grade, f***in' like THIS

Layne:
and then one of us gets himself in potentially BIG trouble, and now we've gotta deal with it; we've got to test our loyalty against ALL odds. It's kind of... exciting. I feel like... Chuck Norris, y'know?

Feck:
I killed a girl, it was no accident. Put a gun to the back of her head and blew her brains right out the front. I was in love.

Samson:
I strangled mine.

Feck:
Did you love her?

Samson:
She was okay.

Clarissa:
I feel like someone dipped me in used cooking oil.

Layne:
Hurry your ass.

Layne:
I know, Feck. Women are evil, you had to kill her.

Matt:
The only reason you stay here is so you can f*** my mother and eat her food. MOTHERF***ER. FOOD EATER.

Feck:
Look, I'm not psycho. I know she's a doll. Right, Elly?

Samson:
I killed her.

Maggie:
You're strange, John.

Tony:
What'd you do, man? Sit on her?

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