No other details yet, but Kino will be giving Tim Hunter's underrated gem a Blu-ray release next year.

I love this movie and can't wait for it. Hopefully it'll sport a great transfer, even more hopeful for some new bonus features.

this is the one with Crispin & Keanu? love it if so!!

The bonus features are a brand new commentary with Tim Hunter and the theatrical trailer. I'll definitely pick this up at some point.

Awesome movie and one of the few on my wish list!

I'll definitely pick this up. Some really good performances, particularly Crispin Glover.

Wow. Great film. Dennis Hopper as Feck!!!

I saw Glover do a live book reading & showing one of his indie movies he directed, during the Q&A he said that River's Edge is his most proudest work

As strange as Crispin Glover is in this movie, no stranger than the real life characters in this story. I went to high school and still lived in Milpitas, California when this murder took place.

The movie is fictionalized, but dead on portraying the kids who did little more than hang out and get high with their friends.

If you find it hard to believe a group of kids would see a dead body and not report it to police, it's because you've never lived in a place like the San Francisco Bay Area in the 70s/80s. And did not see the type of kids who spend most of their childhood high on drugs, and out of touch with reality. Hard to describe. Most of them were not coherent enough to enter in the "Special Olympics".

This movie was made for Crispin Glover and Dennis Hopper. No other actors could have done it justice. Also, Keanu Reeves pretty much nails the stereotypical California kid from the 80's.

^ I posted info. about this movie in another thread awhile back.


Daniel Roebuck's character. Jacques Broussard


Crispin Glover's character. Real name Kirk Rassmussen


Pic of the yearbook just in case you guys think I'm fuckin' with you.


Dave Lefler and Mike Irvin aren't in the yearbook. They're the ones who told the cops about the body. They didn't go to MHS so no pics in the yearbooks I have. They attended Calaveras Hills; a continuation school for losers. I believe Dave is the character Keanu played.

Marcy Conrad, the murder victim didn't attend MHS. She was still at Russell Jr. High across the street from MHS. Back then our high school only had 10th to 12th grades. She was in 9th grade.

I think Feck was a made up character. I don't recall an old dude selling shit back.

As for Crispin's character; he was a nobody. I remember having both of these fuckers in some of my classes. Everyone picked on Jacques--we never knew him as Anthony. A friend of mine; a little filipino dude use to fuck with him all the time. Jacques was a spineless pussy.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...lassics-4.html

First time I've read a post from someone who actually knew these guys. I was 28 or 29 when this happened. Just curious because I've never read anything about why he murdered that girl. I think in the movie he just says something like "She was talking shit"

Also, do you know what happened to Jacques Broussard and Kirk Rassmussen? Was Rassmussen ever charged with anything? I'm guessing not.

The rumor was that she was talking shit about him finding his dead mother after she committed suicide. I don't know if there is any truth to that but that was what was going around at the time. I never hung around Jacques or Kirk....just a couple of losers people use to pick on all the time; as far back as 7th grade if I remember correctly. I don't think even my stoner friends hung out with them.

Jacques is still in prison. I believe Kirk was charged with aiding and abetting after the fact. I don't recall if he went to jail or for how long.

Very interesting update!

Thanks for that, mrhan!

Awesome news!

DVDTalk review is up.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/66526/rivers-edge/

as much as i love the movie, not sure it is worth owning...

Read the review and ordered from Amazon immediately!

in HD if you have Amazon Prime.

Still haven't seen River's Edge on Blu yet, but did re-watch it last week - partially because of the re-interest in the title due to the Blu being recently released.

Great film - I've only seen it a couple of times in the past, and I consider it extremely well done - especially considering it was obviously a low-budget movie. It's definitely an indy-type film, and though it featured K. Reeves, IIRC it was one of his first roles & he wasn't that well-known at the time...the vibe/tone of the film actually seems more like a '90's indy film than an '80's film, probably because the indy film "movement" (such as it was) seemed to begin in the '90's...

Though I knew the film was based on real-life events in CA back in the early '80's, after doing some research & finding out more details...I was even more disturbed by the movie. Quite horrific....

I was also in H.S. in the '80's (I graduated towards the end of that decade), and for whatever reason I never saw the film then. However, seeing the movie much later did also remind me a lot of that time, since I knew a lot of kids like those characters....

Though the film was obviously extremely grim, there was some unintentional?! comedy: I laughed @ the scenes with the ex-hippie teacher trying to engage the kids in his class (by talking about his activism when he was younger), and having it fall on deaf ears...the kids were either bored, indifferent, or stoned, and obviously didn't give a rat's @$$- hilarious I liked how his righteous indignation at the state of the country (and later, the horrific crime) failed to move the kids at all....This also really dates the film as a product of it's era (which it obviously was), since I remembered that during the '80's a lot of these ex-hippies from the '60's & '70's had entered the workforce - and were becoming part of "the establishment" that they had fought against when they were younger - whether they wanted to or not...