Over the Edge

Name: Over the Edge
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: May 18, 1979
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Andy Romano, Ellen Geer, Harry Northup, Julia Pomeroy, Matt Dillon

1979

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Orion Pictures | Release Date: May 18, 1979 | PG

Starring: Andy Romano, Ellen Geer, Harry Northup, Julia Pomeroy, Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Richard Jamison, Tom Fergus, Vincent Spano

Summary: A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.

Director: Jonathan Kaplan

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: PG

Runtime: 95 min

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Script, photography and performances (including Dillon before he decided to become a teenage Stallone) are all top notch, while Kaplan directs with pace, imagination, and a fine ear for dialogue and music. Read full review

David Ansen

Over the Edge is a rabble-rouser--and a good, tough, darkly funny movie to boot. [28 Dec 1981, p.65]

Mike Emery

The young Dillon effortlessly portrays the thuggish Richie, and Kramer is believable as the misunderstood kid turned miscreant. Add a pulsating soundtrack featuring the Ramones, Van Halen, and Cheap Trick, and you have a vibrant depiction of confused teen life. Read full review

Jay Scott

Over The Edge is a good, dangerous film, and it's good in part because it is dangerous - it puts you in touch with these kids' frustrations, and it allows you to feel the relief an explosion brings. [25 June 1982]

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Perceptive, kinetic and entirely believable. Read full review

Vincent Canby

A lot of Over the Edge is awkwardly acted and motivated, but it is staged with such vivid efficiency and concern that, as you watch it, you are frequently caught halfway between a giggle and a gasp. Read full review

Gary Arnold

Over the Edge is an oafishly made movie that claims to deal with a documented case of adolescent unrest in an authentic upper-middle-class social setting, then manipulates the situation only for hypocritical suggestions of teen-age vice and picturesque sprees of teen-age violence. [04 Mar 1982, p.C13]

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