This afternoon I decided to watch a movie I haven’t seen since college: Over the Edge (1979). And I forgot how much I love this film.
It’s about junior high school-age youth whose parents have moved them into a planned community (subdivision) in the middle of nowhere. With nothing to do, and with their parents obsessed with their careers and attracting buyers to the community, the kids are left with nothing to do. Their only entertainment is a private recreation center. When the bored kids drink, take drugs, and engage in crime, the parents and police neglectfully point their fingers at the youth. They’re just a bunch of bad kids, right?
That kid on the left is Matt Dillon. Seriously.
In their quest for making money in their new planned community, the parents and law enforcement are leaving nothing for the youth to become involved in. Naturally, they’re going to do destructive things if they’re bored and neglected. And the kids revolt, locking their parents and police in the school during a what-are-we-going-to-do-about-these-bad-kids meeting. Destruction ensues.
If you get a chance, watch this movie. Brilliance.
that was a great film! i saw it on cable when i was about 13-14 i really dug it. i saw it again a few years ago, & still enjoy it to this day.
I just watched Dark Age again…if you’re going to see only one killer Crocodile movie, this should be the one. Weird mix of Jaws and Baby the Last DInosaur, but held up well from the last time I saw it, some 20 years ago