1986 Directed by Tim Hunter
A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions vary.
Crispin Glover Keanu Reeves Ione Skye Daniel Roebuck Dennis Hopper Taylor Negron Joshua John Miller Roxana Zal Josh Richman Phillip Brock Tom Bower Constance Forslund Leo Rossi Jim Metzler Tammy L. Smith Danyi Deats Yuzo Nishihara Christopher Peters Richard Richcreek Maeve Odum Francis De L'Etanche du Bois Michael Hungerford
Instinto sádico, Messer am Ufer Das
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Crispin Glover but his performance in River's Edge was constantly trying my patience. It seemed as though no one on set felt comfortable enough to tell him to tone it down a bit and the entire film suffered because of it. Joshua John Miller stole the show as the sociopathic little brother to Keanu Reeves (who was also quite good, along with Ione Sky).
The story in River's Edge was too bizarre not to be based on a true crime, and while the movie was quite interesting, the handful of over-the-top performances were met with an outlandish and hyperbolic look at stoner culture and its supposed lack of morality.
"You didn't have to call me a stupid bitch."
"You were driving right past us, we had to yell something."
"I got a name you know. You're lucky I didn't just drive right home."
"Okay, okay, okay. I'm sorry, Clarissa, but you've got to understand that in a time like this where every fucking second counts, a man can't waste his time choosing words."
Crispin Glover in this film is pretty much a drinking game waiting to happen. I want his "gahddaaahmnaaht" as a ringtone, I broke into giggles several times during the film. Luckily, I read this excellent article on the California Shift in American pop punk recently, and I don't know if that's what's happening in Glover's accent,…
A barebones drama, directed by Tim Hunter, is centered around a group of mostly burnout friends in rural Oregon who come to find that one of them(Daniel Roebuck) has killed another of their group. The knowledge of the crime has a different effect on everyone as they keep the information to themselves. When one of them finally tells the cops, it pushes things even further towards the edge.
Well shot and quite beautiful, it is highlighted with strong performances by Keanu Reeves(I really said that), Dennis Hopper(as an on-the-lam fella who killed his girl), Roebuck and Ione Skye. The score is quite dodgy at times and ultimately your enjoyment of the film will hinge on how you accept Crispin Glover's…
Real-life monsters. Simultaneously grunge murder drama and a cold grey snapshot of 80s teen nihilism run amuck. Slathered in malaise and on the verge of mental deterioration, and all the better (and fittingly worse) for it. God bless whatever Crispin Glover is doing here.
The strongest feature of this is its ability to match tone, lighting, and character. The cold mixture of malaise, disconnection, and, for lack of a better term, psychopathy is matched by the pale cold riverside setting and its attendant chilled lighting in a way that somehow makes the characters' various muted reactions to the corpse of their friend seem fitting. As their humanity reasserts slowly but surely, the film's cold tone adds to the deepening discomfort of their situation, shifting from defining to contrasting, Deepening the discomfort after practically starting with a linger shot of a naked, choked corpse is no mean feat.
That shot is possibly a bit too long, a bit too sexualized, and there's an theme lurking…
Crispin Glover looks like a hot New Yorker with 1-2k insta followed. Clint said Keanu looks like an anime character because he has nice lightly frosted hair
two and a half stars for when keanu starts humming the mission impossible theme song and crispin glover tells him to shut up
Crispin Glover is fucking so overtop in this movie and it is so fucking funny.
I really do t know how to explain this. It’s super 80’s but not in the bright neon synth way. It’s a good story and pretty entertaining for the most part.
Nothing really special here. Not many problems that stood out to me though. I just didn’t marvel at it. The cheesiness was too much.
Ich hatte viel Gutes darüber gehört und hab mich jetzt einfach überraschen lassen. Aber irgendwie hat es nicht KLICK gemacht bei mir. Aber so rein gar nicht. Ich konnte weder mit den Charakteren, der Story, noch der Inszenierung etwas anfangen. Vielleicht lag es daran, dass ich den Film nicht zu der Zeit gesehen habe, als er erschienen ist. Ich werde es wohl nie erfahren.
Darren Carver-Balsiger 375 films
Pessimistic worldviews. For when you want to wallow in despair.
It doesn't matter if we all die.
Suggestions welcome.
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