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- 1979
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
- 1979
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
Summary A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.
Directed By: Jonathan Kaplan
Written By: Charles S. Haas, Tim Hunter
- 1979
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
- 1979
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
Over the Edge
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4.5
Where to Watch
Summary A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.
Directed By: Jonathan Kaplan
Written By: Charles S. Haas, Tim Hunter
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
67
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
67
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Over the Edge is a rabble-rouser--and a good, tough, darkly funny movie to boot. [28 Dec 1981, p.65]
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.
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]
Perceptive, kinetic and entirely believable.
Over the Edge is a funeral service held at the graveside of the suburban dream. It tells a ragged story that ends with an improbable climax, but it's acted so well and truly by its mostly teen-age cast that we somehow feel we're eavesdropping.
Part wish fulfillment and part social moralizing, the film never resolves its point of view, but a few of the apocalyptic images stay in the mind.
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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