1986 · drama · crime · teen
River's Edge
Directed by Tim Hunter1h 40m1986
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.
Our read: River's Edge (1986) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · crime · teen entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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