Review #27 - Over The Edge (Movie)

Genre: -
Country: USA
Released: 1979
My Rating: 8/8



This is the first movie i'll be reviewing here. It may include spoilers, but i try not to reveal too much.
The movie is based on a place called New Granada, which is kinda small place and pretty much isolated from the big cities. Alot of teenagers live there and all the parents think they're just out of control and blame everything on them. The kids hung out at a local recreation center and drink and do drugs, but never really annoying their parents on purpose.
The main characters in the movie are two boys, Carl and Ritchie. Carl is from a desent above the average kinda family and Ritchie lives in the suburbs with his family. One day a guy called Mark shoots at a cop car window with a rifle. Not with a real bullet though. I don't know what kinda bullet it was but fuck it. It goes through the window and the copper starts chasing after them. Mark and his friend took off and on their way, they go past Carl and Ritchie and warn them of a cop coming after them. The boys hide for some reason and the cop sees them and arrests them, thinking they were the ones who shot at him. The cops are real assholes, but the boys give it back to them. The boys won't tell who shot at the cop and get out of the station. Meanwhile some rich Texas millionaires come to town and want to built some industrial buildings to New Granada and the kids don't like it so they start to tease them as much as possible. Carl's dad is really nervous 'cause hes the middleman in the business. The boys succeed to get the rich people out of there. The adults realise that the kids are behind this and make cops to keep an eye on them and the cop annoys them as much as possible. The kids start to rebel against and stuff. Carl has a crush on the prettiest girl in town, Cory and starts hanging out with her. Cory gives Carl and Ritchie a gun which gets them in trouble later on. The town arranges a meeting at the local school for the parents discussing about the kids' behaviour. Being totally pissed off already about being threated so bad, the kids gather around and walk at the school, meaning to thrash it to the ground.
The characters are real interesting and they do a good job acting in the movie and Pamela Ludwig is hot. It's the hollywood pretty boy Matt Dillon's first movie. I don't care about screen play or stuff like that. The bottom line is that the story is really good and interesting and this is a movie you can watch several times and not get tired of it. Being called the greatest teen rebellion movie ever, i can agree with that. The music is quite good too. It includes songs from Cheap Trick, The Ramones, The Cars, Jimi Hendrix and few others.