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River Phoenix
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River Phoenix - filmography
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Silent Tongue
on DVD (1994)
Starring: Richard Harris, Sheila Tousey, Alan Bates
Director: Sam Shepard
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Silent Tongue was the last River Phoenix film to be released - a year after his premature death - and has never been out before on UK DVD. Written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard, the film is a haunting Western about a plainsman who will do anything to help his son get over the ..read more »
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43%
from 451 members
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The Thing Called Love
on DVD (1993)
Starring: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Sandra Bullock
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
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New Yorker Miranda Presley (Samantha Mathis)--no relation to the King--buses it to Nashville and arrives with her guitar and the dream of making it big in country music. She meets other twentysomethings at the Bluebird Cafe, a popular local nightspot/talent showcase: Linda Lou Linden (Sandra ..read more »
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58%
from 331 members
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Sneakers
on DVD (1992)
Starring: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
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A computer expert (Robert Redford) heads a team of renegade hackers who test security systems. His past comes back to haunt him when government agents blackmail the "Sneakers" into carrying out a covert operation: track down an elusive black box filled with national security secrets.
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71%
from 1,059 members
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I Love You To Death
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, River Phoenix
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Based on an incredible true story, Lawrence Kasdan's film tells the tale of a woman out to murder her cheating husband... who proves to be invincible. Married chauvinist Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) can't stop sleeping with other women. When his humdrum wife Rosalie (Tracey Ullman) finally realizes what'..read more »
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64%
from 180 members
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Little Nikita
on DVD (1988)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Bradford
Director: Richard Benjamin
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FBI agent Roy Parmenter (Sidney Poitier) meets young Jeff Grant (River Phoenix) when the teen applies for the Air Force Academy. But some information catches Parmenter's eye and alerts him to the fact that all is not right. He finds that Jeff is the son of sleeper Soviet agents, planted in the US ..read more »
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56%
from 182 members
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Stand By Me
on DVD (1986)
Starring: River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Wil Wheaton
Director: Rob Reiner
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Based on Stephen King's novella THE BODY, director Rob Reiner's STAND BY ME is the disarmingly tender and subtly sublime story of four kids on the precipice of early adulthood who embark upon a quest. There's Gordie (Wil Wheaton), the intelligent, creative one with the obviously bright future. His ..read more »
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78%
from 6,691 members
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The Mosquito Coast
on DVD (1986)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Conrad Roberts, Andre Gregory
Director: Peter Weir
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Based on the novel by Paul Theroux, an inventor disillusioned by the growing bureaucracy of America uproots his family to build a utopia in the jungle of Central America. There he finds new threats to his freedom and peace of mind, with tragic results.
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64%
from 681 members
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Explorers
(1985)
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Jason Presson, River Phoenix
Director: Joe Dante
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This adventurous space tale stars Ethan Hawke (in his film debut at the age of 14) and young star River Phoenix as misfit best friends whose dreams of space travel become a reality when they create an interplanetary spacecraft in their homemade laboratory. Ben Crandall (Hawke) is a young visionary ..read more »
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68%
from 122 members
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Heartwarming and melancholy. 14 September 2003
...moving, not least because one of the film's more tragic characters is played by River Phoenix, who himself died at a young age....
VERY GOOD 25 July 2004
