River's Edge

Hollywood likes to celebrate or, to be more precise, exploit celebration of youth. Films that deal with youth or adolescence in more sombre and darker tones are, therefore, quite rare and, unsurprisingly, usually made slightly outside the mainstream. One of those is *River’s Edge*, 1986 crime drama directed by Tim Hunter, also known as one of the darkest teen films ever made. Script was written by Neal Jimenez and i…