I saw the movie the 1st time in the early 90's , about a group of teenage ki!


Question: The movie was a little bit more dark and sinister. I remember at the end they trap all the adults or parents in a building and set fire to it. Seems like they had a reason for doing it. Abuse or b/c they were trying to take away something. But I can't remember much more than it had profound effect on me and I have never seen it since. It could have been an older movie that I just happended to see in the 90's. Any suggestions .


Answers: The movie was a little bit more dark and sinister. I remember at the end they trap all the adults or parents in a building and set fire to it. Seems like they had a reason for doing it. Abuse or b/c they were trying to take away something. But I can't remember much more than it had profound effect on me and I have never seen it since. It could have been an older movie that I just happended to see in the 90's. Any suggestions .

This is the only film that comes to mind for me. The youth of the town do trap the adults in the school, but I don't recall them setting fire to the building. It's quite a scary movie, even after all these years.

Over the Edge (1979)
starring Michael (Eric) Kramer, Matt Dillon (film debut), Vincent Spano (film debut), Pamela Ludwig, Ellen Geer, Andy Romano
IMDB synopsis:
New Grenada is a planned community set in the desert, where there is nothing for the kids to do, save for a rec center that closes at 6 p.m. The parents, in their zeal to attract industry to their town, have all but neglected their children. As a result, the kids begin to create their own entertainment, which involves vandalism, theft, and general hooliganism. Following a tragic incident, the parents gather to adress the problems but soon find out that their kids have had all they can take.
TRIVIA:
Charles S. Haas based his story on true events which occurred in the planned community of Foster City, California in the early 1970s. In fact, a California headline about the incident, "Mouse Packs: Kids On A Crime Spree", was authored by Haas when he was a reporter with the San Francisco Examiner.

Originally completed in 1979, the movie was not released until two years later when it was run on HBO. At the time, the studio thought the movie was too controversial and feared that it would spark violence, which apparently occurred with the film "The Warriors" (1979).

Matt Dillon didn't actually want or expect to be cast in the movie. He went to the audition just so he could skip school.

The film was one of the main inspirations for Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" music video.
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It could be that you are looking for a more-recent film, but "Over the Edge" has proven quite memorable for many people. I saw it a number of times when it was released to HBO, which is when I became a fan of Matt Dillon and Vincent Spano. I had a notion that both would be breakout stars and that Dillon could hit really big.

CandyMan
jk i have no idea.

I'm thinking about an 80's movie -CHILDREN OF THE CORN.

Hmm, I was sorta thinking Over the Edge too.

oh, yeah, that's "Over the Edge" came out in 78 or 79 I think

It is Over the Edge.

The film follows a group of teenagers living in a fictional planned community called New Granada, which is isolated beyond other existing suburbs, in the nearly-treeless plains east of Denver, Colorado. Their needs were not considered by those who designed the community, and so there is nothing for them to do but go to school and hang out at the local recreation center, which closes at six o‘clock. The kids turn to substance abuse and petty crime as a way to kill their boredom, but their outcry falls on deaf ears, as the adults are too concerned with pursuing wealth and stomping out the seemingly-senseless rowdy behavior to actually understand the reasons why the adolescents are acting up. After one of the kids is shot and killed by a police officer, the youths violently rebel against their parents and the authorities, an uprising that results in fiery mayhem in and around the junior high school.

Matt Dillon's first movie.



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