John drunkenly brags about killing Jamie, recounting his strangling of her with a relish that disturbs Feck. Feck confesses to murdering his own girlfriend years earlier, despite having deeply loved her. John and Feck go to the river's edge to drink, with Feck bringing along his blow-up doll, Ellie. Matt and Clarissa talk in the park, where they discuss their conflicting feelings of grief and apathy over Jamie's murder. Tim and Moko break into Feck's house looking for a gun, but instead find his marijuana, which they use to get stoned and pass out. They stop at a convenience store and run into John and Feck. Layne argues with Clarissa and kicks her out of his car. In the middle of the night, Layne, Clarissa and Matt drive to Tony's house, but Tony's father chases them off with a shotgun. Tim goes to his friend Moko's house and they go to Feck's to obtain a gun. When he sees that Tim has defaced the grave marker for her lost doll that their sister made, Matt hits Tim in the face. Matt returns home and argues with his mother and her boyfriend. The police interrogate him, threatening to charge him as an accessory after the fact. Matt directs the police to the river, where they find Jamie's body. After noticing police cars near John's house, they drive to Feck's house, where John stays to hide out.
Meanwhile, Layne returns to the scene and pushes Jamie's body into the river. Later, Clarissa calls Matt, but he is reluctant to talk to her. The group go see Jamie's body, with Layne's older brother Mike driving them there in his truck. John brings Layne and Matt to see Jamie's body Matt is disturbed, while Layne is focused on covering up the crime. Clarissa and Maggie leave for class, thinking he's joking. Matt talks about wanting to run away to Portland, which Clarissa dismisses. On the way, Layne recounts a party from the night before, where John and Jamie were arguing.Īt school, Layne and Matt smoke with their friends Clarissa, Maggie, and Tony. Matt's friend Layne arrives, and the two drive to meet Feck, a neurotic ex- biker and drug dealer, for marijuana. Tim returns home, where his older brother Matt and mother are searching for the doll. Tim accompanies John on a trip to meet Feck to purchase cannabis. John leaves the store and when he goes to start his car he notices Tim has placed the beer cans on his front seat. While John is arguing with the cashier, Tim steals two cans of beer. Shortly after, Tim is playing an arcade game at a convenience store where he sees John being refused the sale of beer. In Northern California, as pre-teen Tim throws his sister's doll into a river, he sees a teenager, John, smoking on the other side, next to the naked corpse of his girlfriend Jamie. In a 2015 retrospective, Salon deemed it "the darkest teen film of all time." The film has an original score by Jürgen Knieper, as well as a soundtrack featuring songs from various punk and metal bands, including Slayer, Fates Warning, Agent Orange, and the Wipers. It was awarded Best Picture at the 1986 Independent Spirit Awards.Ĭontemporary film scholars have noted River's Edge as an example of the "killer kid" film, as well as one of the most polarizing youth-oriented films of the 1980s. Several critics praised the film's performances, and its subject matter resulted in several critics classifying it as a contemporary horror film. Shot in Los Angeles in 1986, the film premiered that year at the Toronto International Film Festival before Island Pictures purchased it for distribution, theatrically releasing it in the United States in May 1987. Jimenez partially based the script on the 1981 murder of Marcy Renee Conrad in Milpitas, California. It follows a group of teenagers in a Northern California town who are forced to deal with their friend's murder of his girlfriend and the subsequent disposal of her body. River's Edge is a 1986 American crime drama film directed by Tim Hunter, written by Neal Jimenez, and starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye Leitch in her film debut, Daniel Roebuck and Dennis Hopper.
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