Biography: River Phoenix |

Noted for the depth, sensitivity, and intelligence that he brought to his roles during his teens, River Phoenix was on the cusp of becoming a successful adult actor when he overdosed on drugs and died on Halloween night, 1993. The son of Arlyn... more
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Cast: Peter Bogdanovich   
Tags: Romantic Drama Showbiz Drama Drama Ensemble Film 
Length: 116min
A handful of up-and-coming songwriters discover that love is as difficult to navigate as the music business in this omantic comedy-drama from director Peter Bogdanovich. Miranda Presley (Samantha Mathis) is an aspiring singer/songwriter from New York...

Cast: Robert Redford Ben Kingsley David Strathairn   
Tags: Action Thriller Crime Comedy Comedy Thriller 
Length: 125min
In this ech- hriller from director Phil Alden Robinson, a group of five renegade computer hackers, led by Martin Bishop (Robert Redford), are hired by the government to steal a black box, containing a code-breaking machine, from the mathematician who...

Cast: Alan Bates   
Tags: Drama Western Psychological Western 
Length: 98min
Playwright Sam Shepard wrote and directed this bizarre combination of western film revisionism and Greek tragedy. Silent Tongue (Tantoo Cardinal) is a mute Kiowa who is raped by Eamon McCree (Alan Bates), the owner of the Kickapoo Traveling Medicine...

Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Coming-of-Age 
Length: 94min
River Phoenix stars in this period drama about a young man, naive in some ways and worldly in others, who learns an important lesson about the nature of beauty. In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace (River Phoenix) is an 18-year-old Marine Corps...

Cast: Keanu Reeves   
Tags: Black Comedy Crime Comedy Comedy Crime 
Length: 97min
Lawrence Kasdan's black comedy about a wife's ultimate revenge against her womanizing husband is based on a true story about the wife of a pizzeria owner who decided to kill her cheating husband. When her attempt to murder him failed, the husband...

Cast: River Phoenix   
Tags: Drama Coming-of-Age Family Drama 
Length: 116min
In this family drama from director Sidney Lumet, Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti play Arthur and Annie Pope, a pair of '60s radicals who have eluded the FBI for 16 years after bombing a napalm laboratory as a Vietnam War protest. This lifestyle...

Cast: Sidney Poitier   
Tags: Paranoid Thriller Unglamorized Spy Film Drama Action Spy Film Action Thriller 
Length: 97min
Jeff Grant (River Phoenix) is a San Diego teen who discovers his father Richard (Richard Jenkins) and mother Elizabeth Grant) are KGB agents. When he applies to the Air Force Academy, a routine FBI check leads to the shocking news. Soon the suburb of...

Tags: Drama Buddy Film Gay & Lesbian Films Road Movie 
Length: 105min
Gus Van Sant's dreamtime riff on Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Parts I and II" features River Phoenix as Mike Waters, a narcoleptic male hustler who is first seen drifting on a stretch of highway in Idaho. Mike shifts from Seattle to Portland, where he has...

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Cast: Harrison Ford Steven Spielberg Sean Connery Denholm Elliott George Lucas John Williams   
Tags: Adventure Action Costume Adventure Adventure Comedy 
Length: 126min
The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River Phoenix), who, through a fast-paced prologue, gives the audience insight into the roots of his taste...

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
Tags: Teen Movie Drama Coming-of-Age 
Length: 95min
The een drama A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon is directed by William Richert, who adapted the screenplay from his own semi-autobiographical novel -Aren't You Even Going to Kiss Me Goodbye? Set in a wealthy Chicago suburb during the 1960s,...
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