Stars: Crispin Glover, Dennis Hopper, Daniel Roebuck

Director: Tim Hunter

Summary: Successful thriller, based on a true story, of teenagers poised on the brink of adolescence and adulthood. When Sampson admits to his schoolfriends that he has murdered his girlfriend, they must all decide which is the more important, staying loyal to him or admitting knowledge of the murder.

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.

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Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1987
Release Date:	October 4, 2004
Runtime:	96 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	10001200
Keywords:	General, Edge, Drama, River's
Genre:	Drama