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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 5978
Released: September 20, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
"Tomorrow's city...today" is how the planned suburban paradise of New Granada promotes itself, but something has been left out of the plans. No one is paying attention to the town's teens. Jonathan Kaplan directs this hot-blooded cult classic (a 1979 London Film Festival Outstanding Film Award winner) about kids left to discover their own values and coming up with enough drugs, booze and discontent to push everyone Over the Edge. Fourteen-year-old Matt Dillon makes his screen debut as the kids' charismatic, doomed leader Richie. The anthemic soundtrack by Van Halen, The Ramones, Cheap Trick and others provide the film's rock-n-roll heart.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Director Jonathan Kaplan, Screenwriters Charlie Haas and Tim Hunter and roducer George Litto
Theatrical Trailer
Description of Over the Edge:
Return to the pre-Internet days of 1979, when teens had KISS on their T-shirts and Led Zeppelin on their walls (wait, other than the high-waisted pants, that could be today). Richie (Matt Dillon in an electrifying debut) and Carl (Michael Kramer) are two such teens stuck in the planned community of New Granada (rural Colorado). Richie is a two-bit hood in Jackie Earle Haley (Bad News Bears) mode. Carl, his partner in mischief (breaking curfew, setting off firecrackers), comes from a more stable environment. Once a gun enters the picture, petty crime leads to tragedy and then apocalyptic revenge. Over the Edge gets the details right: the kids, the era, and their frustration with an uncomprehending adult world. At times, it almost feels like documentary, except for a few moments of high Kubrick-meets-Walter Hill drama, as when Carl gets jumped by a couple of hoods, including Vincent Spano (Baby It's You). Directed by Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) and shot by Andrew Davis (The Fugitive), Over the Edge was unavailable for too long and deserves to find the same audience as other teen rebellion classics like co-writer Tim Hunter's River's Edge. The period-perfect soundtrack ups the ante with potent tracks from Cheap Trick, the Ramones, and the Cars. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Over the Edge Reviews:
Seventies Classic 
2009-12-04 - I was there. This film is for real.
This movies is NOT about the eighties. It is about the seventies and the conditions described were in effect all over the country.
If you want to know what the seventies were really like, watch this film and "Dazed and Confused".
Maybe you won't understand exactly but you'll be in the neighborhood.
I went to High School with the lead actor 
2009-10-24 - I sat next to Mike Kramer in art class for a year in high school, we went to Bronx High School of Science (Kramer and I are smart dudes though I am sure I have more money than him because I am a bonds trader and he is an actor!), sophmore year I think. He flew to California to make this film which was very good, I saw it on cable tv 30 years ago, and when Kramer came back from making the film he was a senior. Unfortunately he didnt really go on to have careers like Dillon or Spano but he is in the film Project X. I really did dig this film heavily, its as authentic as I can remember those days were, kids were pretty seedy in real life in the late 1970's and half the people I knew back then have died.
Over The Edge
2009-10-18 - I came across this video in a Community College class back in the 90's. Learning about this movie was the best and only thing I;ve gotten out of going to college thus far. I am a film maker/writter/director and this movie has inspired me in every which way possible when I write and direct.
If you haven't already bought it DO SO NOW before you sign out. This movie really is something to be passed down through generations because everyone, EVERYONE can relate to it in one way or another. You may have been one of the kids or may have know a few kids like they kids in the movie or just lived or DO live in a neighborhood that was like New Granada.
I would like to hear a interview with Matt Dillon and see what he has to say about this movie putting him on the map to success and to now being one of the best actors in Hollywood. I have read on other sites that he is rude to fans and a little arrogant. I'd like to bump into him and recite some of his lines from O.T.E. and see what his reaction would be.
I love this movie and can't say enough about it.
I have gotten so many kids in film school to watch this and even got a teacher to present it one day for a lecture and discussion class. He had never seen it and the students were blown away. Being a artsy college I goto, the students focus on underground indie films about whip cream pies that sit in a empty room. You know the type. Then ask you to see the relevance between the pie and America social and economic structure. It was a little hard for them to understand this was a movie that the masses can relate to but in the end they all really really were glad I brought it in. The teacher told me my work wasn't the best but to bring that film to light to students and faculty in such a narrow minded department earned me a "A+" for the class.
Thanks Over The Edge.
I've often thought about making a remake of it but don't think it would have the same impact or acceptance that this version had/has.
I can go on and on but will stop and let anyone respond to what I have written here. Please, I;d like to hear what you have to say.
Side note. I was very much like Carl when I was growing up. I plan to get a Rottweiler pretty soon and since dog is mans best friend, I will be naming him "Richie White" :)
Best teen movie from the 1970's
2009-06-07 - This movie left a deep impression on me as a young kid and set an expectation that very few other teen movies could live up to. The soundtrack is awesome and the kids are real. I could never remember the name and was so happy to find it on Amazon.com. I only wish it was available through video on demand, I'd be watching it now.
jonesing a late 70's fix?
2009-03-29 - the movie certainly has appeal for the matt dillon fan. he stars as the doomed ritchie. what i liked most about the film (30 years after the fact) is the fairly accurate depiction of suburban life in the late 70's. the kids, the adults, the cops, the drugs, booze, sex and rock and roll are all spot on. anyone that tries to tell you that things were different is a liar. of course, we didn't completely trash a school and our parents cars (at least not all in one night) but you have to allow the filmmaker some leeway. it was a time of conflict and change. one can even see the seeds of the subprime crisis being planted. "who's going to want to pay 60 or 70 thousand dollars to live in a color coordinated slum?" (or words to that effect) is used as an argument for tightly controlling the youths of the community.
it's not the seventh seal, but certainly worth watching for anyone who lived in or is interested in the era.
