River’s Edge

In a small American town, a high schooler murders his girlfriend and boasts about it to the rest of the group. River’s Edge approaches the dark vision of Twin Peaks and becomes the mold from which grunge was to spring. Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover, Ione Skye, Joshua John Miller, and Dennis Hopper leap onto the screen to a Slayer soundtrack. The most important work in the filmography of that extraordinary anatomist of adolescence, Tim Hunter.

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Direction: Tim Hunter

Script: Neal Jimenez

Cinematography: Frederick Elmes

Editing: Howard Smith, Sonya Sones

Sound: David Brownlow

Music: Jürgen Knieper

Actors: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye Leitch, Daniel Roebuck, Dennis Hopper, Joshua Miller, Josh Richman, Roxana Zal, Philip Brock, Tom Bower, Constance Forslund, Leo Rossi

Production: Hemdale Film Corporation, Sanford/Pillsbury Production

Producers: Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford

Co-producers: David Streit

Art Direction: John Muto

Costumes: Claudia Brown

Executive producer: John Daly, Derek Gibson

Sets: Anne H. Ahrens

Camera: R.D. Carpenter, Rick Hall, Lex duPont, David Rudd

Make Up: Gábor Kernyaiszky, Kenny Myers, Bonita DeHaven

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: USA

Production Year: 1986

Duration: 99΄

Contact: Park Circus Ltd, info@parkcircus.com

Awards/Distinctions: Special Jury Recognition – Sundance FF 1987

Tim Hunter

Tim Hunter is an American television and film director. Since the late 1980s he has mostly worked on television, directing episodes for dozens of televisions series including Breaking Bad, Deadwood, Falcon Crest, Law & Order, Mad Men, Twin Peaks, and American Horror Story, among others. During the early to mid-1980s, Hunter directed several feature films, including 1986’s River’s Edge, which won that year’s award for Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards.