River's Edge
Movie1986·US, GB·1h 40min

River's Edge

Which was worse? The murder or what came after?

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Premiere
10
Oct1986
Box office×2.42
Budget$2M
Gross$5M
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River's Edge (1986) is an American crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Tim Hunter and starring Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover, and Dennis Hopper. One teenager killed his girlfriend and left her body by the river. His friends find out. And they do nothing.

What follows is not a thriller about catching a killer — it's a cold look at a group of small-town teens trying to decide whether loyalty means covering up a murder. Glover plays a twitchy, frightening ringleader who insists silence is the only option; Reeves is the youngest and the only one who can't quite go along with it. Hopper's turn as a paranoid ex-biker who lives with an inflatable doll reads less like a quirk and more like a portrait of a burned-out generation.

Loosely based on a real 1981 killing in Milpitas, California, the film became a defining piece of 1980s American indie cinema — uncomfortable, unglamorous, and still difficult to shake. Stream River's Edge online on iFILM.

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