Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.
Acting
Michael Madsen doing what Michael Madsen does best — terrifying charisma.
Direction
Tim Hunter brings River's Edge grit to this doomed brotherhood.
Cinematography
Desaturated desperation in every frame — the 90s knew how to do ugly-beautiful.
Director
Tim Hunter
Matthew Modine
Walter Schmeiss
Mary-Louise Parker
Officer Emily Peck
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Josh Minnell
Fairuza Balk
Bella Sotto
Michael Madsen
Skarney
Jesse Borrego
Felice A. Beato
Kate McGregor-Stewart
Mother Minnell
Lawrence Pressman
Father Minnell
Jeff Kober
Rubicon Beziqui
Marc Worden
Simon
Joel McKinnon Miller
Customs Officer
Robert Gossett
Partner
Kimberly Wallis
Saleswoman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jonathan Rhys Meyers was barely 20 here, still credited as Jonathan Rhys-Meyers — the hyphen disappeared later like his character's innocence.
This bombed so hard it basically vanished, but it's secretly a dry run for the 'toxic masculinity destroys working-class families' cinema that would dominate indie film two decades later.
US
