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Release Date: 02 September, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
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Great Performances. "Hey, Feck!"
"River's Edge" is an early Keanu Reeve's movie that I've never heard an unkind word about. Critics love(d) it, audiences like it; Apparently, it's based on a true story and I hear a lot of people talk about how creepy and disturbing it is. One critic I recall called it "Deeply disturbing." Having just watched it for the first time, it's definitely disturbing that something like that would happen. But this movie doesn't really set itself up to be deeply disturbing; The music, the performances, nor the script really give off that emotion. Anyway, Samson (Daniel Roebuck) accidentally kills a girl named Jamie. He leaves her body right near the river's edge and tells all his friends about it. His friends, of course, are skeptical...But Samson is happy to prove it to anybody who's interested and pretty soon, almost all of his friends have seen it. All the kids are in a marijuana/alcohol induced haze, so it doesn't really click with any of them what's happened except for Matt (Reeves) who eventually reports Samson. Meanwhile, Layne (Crispin Glover) is trying to get rid of the body from the river's edge in an effort to help Samson. There's also a sub-plot involving Matt's brother Tim (Joshua Miller) looking for a gun with which to exact revenge on Matt for beating him up. The movie also co-stars a beautiful girl named Ione Skye Leitch, the love interest of Matt and Dennis Hopper playing the psychotic Feck. Hopper is perfectly cast, he plays the quirky villains better than a lot of people and as the deranged Feck (who sells all the neighborhood kids weed and has himself killed a girl in the past). The movie is a fantastic movie, both as entertainment and as a character(s) study; The film definitely has it's flaws though, like bad dialogue and some overacting (most notably by Glover and Reeves, who hadn't hit it big and were trying to hard to make their mark). One big thing that makes this film good is that Samson isn't some sinister high school murder. Merely, a normal kid with a slightly drug-induced psychotic streak. That adds to the realism a bit.
GRADE: A-
Worthless dreck
One of the worst films I have ever seen. First off, Crispin Glover has to be the most annoying actor ever to walk the face of the earth. (Is it me or is his voice like nails on a chalkboard?) Then you throw the second worst in there--Keanu Reeves. There are better films about Gen X'ers than this worthless dreck.
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