River's Edge is a 1986 American drama movie starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, and Dennis Hopper.
It was awarded Best Picture from the Independent Spirit Award in 1986.
While the screenplay is fiction, it draws from the November 3, 1981 murder of 14-year-old Marcy Renee Conrad, who was raped and strangled to death by 16-year-old Anthony Jacques Broussard in Milpitas, California, after she teased him about his dead m...
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River's Edge is a 1986 American drama movie starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, and Dennis Hopper.
It was awarded Best Picture from the Independent Spirit Award in 1986.
While the screenplay is fiction, it draws from the November 3, 1981 murder of 14-year-old Marcy Renee Conrad, who was raped and strangled to death by 16-year-old Anthony Jacques Broussard in Milpitas, California, after she teased him about his dead mother.
Broussard bragged of raping and murdering Conrad, later showing the body to at least thirteen different people; despite this, the crime went unreported for two days.
Broussard pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years to life with parole possible after 16 years and 8 months. The 6-foot, 4-inch, 280-pound teenager had been mentally disturbed since finding his mother dead in the shower at the age of seven. Kirk Rasmussen, 16, was sentenced to three years in a juvenile center for kicking dirt and leaves to help hide the girl's partially...
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