i could only imagine the reaction if...
two teen girls came across a dead body of a friend of theirs.
shareYou don't have to, they made a movie.
sharewhich is not very realistic.
shareKind of a hard thing to gauge realism on. Doesn't really happen enough, and everybody reacts to traumatic or crazy events differently.
shareit's loosely based on a true story.
river's edge is an imperfect film, for sure, but it has a real bite. i watched it the year it was released, and i've never forgotten it.
"River's Edge is a fictionalized account of a 1981 murder case in Milpitas, California, in which 16-year-old Anthony Jacques Broussard strangled 14-year-old Marcy Conrad and dumped her body near the foothills outside of town. For two days, Conrad's murder went unreported, as Broussard brought classmates from Milpitas High School to view Conrad's dead body. The story received widespread media attention as parents grappled with tough questions: Were America's children completely amoral? What did they believe in? Did they believe in anything?"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmwj3d/an-oral-history-of-rivers-edge-1987s-most-polarizing-teen-film
who were you??
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