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  • Stand By Me
  • Stand By Me review by A customer from Newcastle, England
    Rated - 5 stars 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....  
  • A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon
  • A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon review by A customer from Leicester, England
    Rated - 4 stars VERY GOOD 25 July 2004
    ...h path to take, we all go through such times which I guess allows us to relate. River Phoenix is always watchable, he has become almost as legendary as James Dean after his ...  
  • I Love You To Death
  • I Love You To Death review by Reece from London
    Rated - 4 stars An interesting meatball 8 July 2004
    ... and curiously adept at bumping people off in what looks like freak accidents. River Phoenix does well as a hippy whimp inexplicably attracted to middle aged frumpy house w...  

River Phoenix - filmography


  • Silent Tongue on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Richard Harris,  Sheila Tousey,  Alan Bates
    Director: Sam Shepard
    Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.0 43% from 451 members
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  • Sneakers on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Dan Aykroyd,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Phil Alden Robinson
    Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 1,059 members
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  • Stand By Me on DVD (1986)
    Starring: River Phoenix,  Corey Feldman,  Wil Wheaton
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 4.0 78% from 6,691 members
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  • Explorers (1985)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Jason Presson,  River Phoenix
    Director: Joe Dante
    Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 68% from 122 members
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River Phoenix facts

5 most recent films


Silent Tongue - 2.0 stars
The Thing Called Love - 3.0 stars
Sneakers - 3.5 stars
Dogfight - 3.5 stars
My Own Private Idaho - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade - 4.0 stars
Stand By Me - 4.0 stars
Running On Empty - 3.5 stars
Explorers - 3.5 stars
Sneakers - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Dogfight - 3.5 stars
Silent Tongue - 2.0 stars
A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon - 2.5 stars
Little Nikita - 3.0 stars
The Thing Called Love - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Martha Plimpton - 2 times - show films
Dermot Mulroney - 2 times - show films
Sidney Poitier - 2 times - show films
Keanu Reeves - 2 times - show films
Harrison Ford - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Richard Benjamin - 1 times - show films
Sam Shepard - 1 times - show films
Nancy Savoca - 1 times - show films
Sidney Lumet - 1 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 1 times - show films