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Biography

'River's Edge is a 1986 American drama film directed by Tim Hunter (director)|Tim Hunter . Written by Neal Jimenez , it stars Crispin Glover , Keanu Reeves , Ione Skye , Daniel Roebuck and Dennis Hopper .

The movie was awarded Best Picture during the Independent Spirit Awards of 1986.

Plot

A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, John, has murdered one of their friends, Jamie. He brags to them all at school about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions vary. Layne, the self-proclaimed leader of the group, is intent on keeping the murder a secret and protecting John, while the rest of the group (Matt, Clarissa, Maggie, and Tony) debate going to the police.

Basis

While the Jimenez screenplay is fiction, it draws from the November 3, 1981 Murder of Marcy Renee Conrad| murder of 14-year-old Marcy Renee Conrad , who was raped and strangled to death by 16-year-old Anthony Jacques Broussard in Milpitas, California .Klinger, Karen. "A Town Looks at a Murder: Many Could Share the Blame". Detroit Free Press . July 25, 1982.

Broussard bragged of raping and murdering Conrad, later showing the body to at least thirteen different people; despite this, the crime went unreported for two days.

The 6-foot, 4-inch, 280-pound, 16 year old Broussard had been mentally disturbed since finding his mother dead in the shower at the age of seven.

Broussard pled guilty and was sentenced to Life imprisonment | 25 years to life with parole possible after 16 years and 8 months.. He was denied a new trial in 1985,"Milpitas Youth Loses Plea in 1981 Strangling of Girl". The San Francisco Chronicle . January 19, 1985. and has repeatedly been denied parole.Hoover, Ken. "Parole Denied to Killer Of Milpitas Teenager". The San Francisco Chronicle . August 17, 1996.. As of December 2010 (29 years) Broussard is still incarcerated at California's Folsom State Prison .. Kirk Rasmussen, 16, was sentenced to three years in a juvenile center for kicking dirt and leaves to help hide the girl's partially clad body.Mathews, Jay. "California Suburb Sorts Out Fear and Confusion in Teen Slaying". The Washington Post . December 6, 1981.

Neal Jimenez read about the story in the newspaper while visiting friends, wrote a script and turned it in to his instructor while he was an English major at Santa Clara University . He got a "C+" so he rewrote it and received an "A". Jimenez said, "that the incident is merely the inspiration for the screenplay".Villagran, Nora. "'River's' Writer: 'I Made It Up' Filmmakers Say Movie Depicts a Rootless Post-Watergate World". San Jose Mercury News . May 22, 1987.

Cast

Crispin Glover as Layne

Keanu Reeves as Matt

Ione Skye as Clarissa

Daniel Roebuck as Samson 'John' Tollet

Dennis Hopper as Feck

Roxana Zal as Maggie

Joshua John Miller as Tim

Josh Richman as Tony

Phillip Brock (actor)|Phillip Brock as Mike

Tom Bower (actor)|Tom Bower as Det. Bennett

Constance Forslund as Madeleine

Leo Rossi as Jim

Jim Metzler as Mr. Burkewaite

Taylor Negron as Checker

Danyi Deats as Jamie

Tammy Smith as Kim

Music

Then-independent California record label Metal Blade Records provided the metal soundtrack, featuring artists from their roster like Slayer , Hallow's Eve and Fates Warning .

U.S. underground punk band Wipers its featured on the soundtrack.

Crust Punk band Dystopia (band)|Dystopia sampled dialogue from the film on its album Human = Garbage .

U.S. band The Goo Goo Dolls song "You Know What I Mean" from its 1990 release Hold Me Up was based upon the film.

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