Over the Edge

Matt Dillon

Sharp critical film which highlighted the alienation of young people living in a planned suburban "utopia" in 1979. Many of these projects at the time fed on peoples' desire for a better life...the protected isolation of the remote burbs was seen as the best place to raise children. But it turned out that isolating teens led them to turn against each other and the adult world which had failed them.

Very successful film which shocked many at the time and served as a wake-up call to the bourgeoisie that perhaps their notions of the good life were false.

Unforgettable.

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