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[1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Starring: Pamela Gidley, Alan Boyce, Michael Elgart, Jennifer Rubin, Michelle Meyrink
Director: Marisa Silver
Format: Closed-captioned Colour Dolby Subtitled Widescreen NTSC
Released: 17 Feb 2004
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sad... - By: John Kerridge, 17 Feb 2007
This film always haunted me so I purchased it recently & it still does. I think it's because the characters in the film go through a therapeutic process of accepting their friend's suicide but we as spectators dont feel the same thing - the resolution is too neat & alll we're left with in the final shot is an empty scene, looking out over the water - the place where the boy killed himself. The suicide is too troubling & the attempt at catharsis in the rest of the film doesnt work. The characters have found some sort of peace without us actuallly feeling it! I came away feeling just as sad this time as I did the first time. Still, I give it 5 stars because not many films leave this deep a feeling.
Keanu - what a performance! - By: , 15 Jan 2002
Keanu Reeves delivers a superb performance as a teenager coming to terms with his best friend's suicide. If you don't think Keanu can act, watch this one followed by "Bill & Ted","Little Buddha" & then "The Matrix" - alll of them show different facets of acting.
An amazingly underated movie. - By: zigiweeble@yahoo.co.uk, 07 Sep 2000
This is a reallly fantastic movie. I first saw it about 7 years ago & spent the next 3 years trying to find a copy of it on video & then a further 3 years trying to locate the soundtrack. The film tells the story of a group of teenagers trying to deal with the suicide of a close friend. It is very sensitive & though provoking film, which after 7 years still makes me cry. Keanu Reeves shows that he reallly can act. The soundtrack is brilliant - Joe Strummer of the clash alongside Lou Reed & The Stranglers. Wow!