Over The Edge screening at Lincoln Center, Matt Dillon film
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Video of the cast and crew discussing the cult film Over The Edge. This rarely seen film was Matt Dillons first film in the 70's and it never received distribution due to fears that it would cause rioting.
Grew up with Michael Kramer in the Bronx. He became a local celebrity, but remained very humble as I recall. Always loved this film.
Really dig this little flick! It was essentially filmed in the area I grew up in (Denver/Aurora, CO) and also being about 16 years old in the summer of 78, when it was actually filmed (movie was released in 79). I recognize most all the filming locations and currently live just about a half a mile from the "rec. center" site location. Love to see a reunion of all the actors today! Every time I jog by the "rec center" site, i can visualize those kids reeking havoc... and Doberman on the chase...
The opening shot with of Cheap Trick's version of, "Speak now or Forever Hold Your Peace", is perfection.
Yesss
I loved this movie back when it use to be on HBO I've once had the DVD Man I tells ya the most kickass movies of 1979 will always be over the edge along with the warriors my lifetime favorites!!!!!
That would be a great double feature
First time it was on cable back in the day it was like my brain exploded to a new world. I was 8.
I had it taped off HBO when I was a kid and watched it constantly
Matt Dillion’s “Bad boy” persona in this movie is so spot on for the era that it doesn’t even feel like a acted character. It just feels real. In my youth, if you could pull off the Ritchie White Vibe… you didn’t have to chase girls. They chased you.
Truth.
I lived in San Mateo right next to Foster City back in those days 1976-1979 . Watching the film is like watching my childhood captured forever. Even the colorado town they used looks just like foster city right down to the lagoon type water ponds by the condos. I showed my daughter the film and she said the character of Carl is just like me not physically but emotionally and how I think and feel. Most of my close friends say the same thing. My favorite part of the film is a very personal one. When the kids are on the bus travelling to '' The Hill'' there is a moment when Carl sees Cory and the gang out the bus window and he smiles. Then as he settles back down in the bus seats, his smile diminishes and he knows that he is back to reality and has to face his acts in juvie hall. It is such a subtle emotion that Michael Kramer gives but if you watch it closely it's brilliant. Much love to the cast and crew. This was my ''Rebel Without A Cause'' film of the late 70's. Thanks for uploading this... Loren.
It is eerie that juvenile hall was literally up the hill off of 92 near crystal springs
@@BAYAREA-kd1ig omg yesssss your so right !
I was born in 1968 and this film was an instant hit with my friends and I.I stayed on the edge for years , it made me who I am .Someone who dares to have a little fun.
Me & my cousins used to go to The Houston Summit & BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF WHITE BOYS for their concert shirts during this era!!! Oh, man! How l loved stealing their shirts & whipping their asses... Now l'm a teacher, but what great times.
Born in ‘65 and this movie might as well have been a documentary of my life at that time. All too real.
It might have already been mentioned, but this film gave me my first exposure to Van Halen. I think the scene was at a house party and I heard a few seconds of 'you really got me' and I remember saying "what was that" ! There were other memorable moments, but that stood out. Back in the days if people remember, cable TV used to play the same film multiple times a day and this was one of them. I must confess, I lived through many of the excesses that the kids depicted in the film. Yep, the late 70s and early 80s were crazy times. Most of us came out with only a few scratches. 😁
Everything you said - me too. ✌🏼
channel by someone else who made it thru 70s w only a few scratches:
www.youtube.com/@johnmastandrea137/videos
Me too ,heard van Halen and decided to play drums more and smoke hash😅😅😅
Wow the 70s I remember well teen years Flashback 😂 music , marijuana, mayhem 😮=. Running knocking on doors and running all high and paranoid Hits for a reason and running some more laughing 😅😅. Something about marijuana and vandalism 😮
Remember when Corey rode by Claude and Carl with her Dad in a station wagon? She was 15 yrs old and smoking a Marlboro...different times!
This movie captured that era perfectly. Tonight I asked a co-worker.." Hey, do you remember the movie 'Over The Edge'? He said he didn't. I proceeded to pull up some clips here on YT. It was so accurate with its' depiction of our lives back then. I remember feeling comforted to see that the bizarre life I seemed to be living was represented so vividly on screen.
I remember we used to go to Black Sabbath & Triumph shows & WHIPP WHITE BOYS ASSES for their concert shirts! We called it "rollin'" - we'd go to school & wear our concert shirts for a WEEK!!! We were so BAD ASS for beating those pussies up & taking their concert shirts from them! OHHHH - GREAT TIMES... I miss them so much.
lol!
xraeddie it’s a great movie. I saw it on A&E 1988 when I was 15 and I just loved it. The music and how I related to the characters and I know it’s a cult film. I just ordered the DVD on eBay. And I just love this movie for what it means to us. If it’s not a commercial success y’all created a great movie
I first discovered this film on HBO in 1998 I was 13 years old and feel in love with this film this movie really shows what its like being a teen in a nothing to do town lol ... I still have the vhs tape I recorded this movie on ... and it does a great job of showing of life in the late 70's this film is a classic
One of my favorite films, saw it while playing hooky in 4th grade. Definitely stuck with me. Claude tripping on acid during class is still one of the funniest scenes ever and the dialogue between the kids is just so natural, you feel like you’re part of the crew.
WOW!
Over The Edge completely reflected the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1970's.
I LOVED that movie, which never made it to a theater near me, but it did make it to Showtime, and I watched it, repeatedly.
I am pleased to have seen this reunion. Finally, I've been able to see what happened to some of the film's actors.
MESSAGE TO THE ACTORS IN THE FILM: you were naturals. Your acting was perfect. It was wonderful.
THANK YOU!
I think it reflected almost Everywhere, USA back then. We lived in Houston at the time and this movie might as well have been a documentary of my junior high life there. I can totally identify with these kids, and all my friends were like them as well. Most accurate portrayal of 70’s suburban American youth culture ever put to film.
Omg, this is AWESOME!!
And, best soundtrack ever!!
Awesome, thanks for sharing. One of my favorite movies, I used to watch this all the time when it came on cable when I was growing up. It had a profound effect on me, but its wierd watching the film nowadays as the kids in the film are so much younger then me now.
One of the great unheralded films of the 1970's.
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My friend is one of the extras in this movie! She was 13 at the time.....lol Those were the days, my friend!
Matt Dillon should have appeared in this event.
Wow! Just discovered this video. I was in 6th/7th grade in 1979. A favorite film of mine. Thank you!
This is what it was like when I was growing up. It does resonate with teenagers and it is quite good.
I grew up in Foster City where this film was based upon and might have known some of these kids who were older than me. Doberman was based on Officer ‘Beerman’ who was the truant guy. When they mention the ‘Hill’ they are referring to “Hillcrest Juvenile Detention Center” in San Mateo. I still live in Foster City and the original rec center is still there…
Is that in Frisco area?
Very interesting
Great film. Luv the interview. Never knew it didn't receive Distribution. Wow. Luckilly, HBO and Showtime screened it for audiences.
Thanks for posting this. I loved the movie and grew up in Foster City during the 1970s and 1980s. (I saw the manager of Foster City's 7-11 posted on here too! I lived about 200 yards from it.) The movie depicted exactly what it was like living there. Nothing to do and a lot of kids. Sadistic police force with nothing to do all day but harass teens.
The F.C. police department is next level assholery. Even to this day
I was exactly the kid's age when this movie came out in 1979. Although I never saw it until it aired on HBO in the early 80s. It was pretty much spot on with how it portrayed suburban life as a teenager.
I remember watching this movie on cable. I was probably about 11 or 12. Loved the movie and soundtrack
A year later and I'm back to watch this again... Love it! I wish it was 10x longer!
Wow! It's so cool seeing these actors present day! I remember that film well! Definitely a snapshot of the times! I looked like that when I was a teen and had friends who looked like that! Thanks for uploading!
I look bk on pix in 1979 in my 9th grade yrbk . The clothes the people i knew where over the edge the pks of kids. Who what , when. Kinda frky . Power to 1979.
Awesome movie I never get tired of watching it Michael Kramer Tom Fergus and Pamela Ludwig rule
Thank you for posting, tgtotu . I've been a big fan of this movie since I first saw it on HBO in the early 1980's. I have the DVD, and I watch it often. I've really enjoyed seeing the cast reunited, and I'm amazed at how great they still look.
they didn't talk about the true message. which is that the kids didn't have any solid values to fall back on. just sex, drugs, and rock. either the parents were not conscientious, or they did not know how to teach anything beyond materialism. when you're a kid, you want to have fun. it's the parents' job to regulate the fun and put it in context.
It took me multiple viewings of Over The Edge to finally notice and realize something odd about Johnny, played by Tiger Thompson: All through the movie Johnny never speaks, clearly is unable to speak but no one ever says anything about why he can't speak. Then one time I got a very good HD copy of the movie and freeze framed it on a close up of Johnny on the phone with Carl and I noticed the red scar that runs all the way from side to side at the bottom of his neck. I realized right away that it was a surgical scar since I have one just like it. So this tells me that for some unknown reason Johnny must have had either an accident or illness that caused him to have to have neck surgery which damaged his vocal cords, which is why he can't speak. That's my conjecture, anyway. I wonder if anyone else ever noticed Johnny's neck scar? Once you know it's there you can see it in some scenes.
The movie looks like every suburban area I ever knew. It looks like where I grew up except I was 15 in 95 and I still see these places today. The middle class houses, empty streets, small trees, bare fields, boredom. This film doesn't seem to age.
I’m 15 right now and I hate this generation. I would kill do be with these kids and hanging out in the 70s. If I could travel back then I would leave everything except my family and just start a new life. Nobody likes what I like and everyone back then was like me. I’m so jealous I want to be there so bad.
Bro, you're 15. You don't even know most of the people who you'll meet in the rest of your life. Cheer up. It gets better.
This boy is a Ritchie and Carl's heir 😅😅😅😅😅😅
Awesome awesome awesome. Too bad all the actors weren't there. Great movie.
I'll bet they never thought they be talking about this movie 30 years later. What a classic film. Thank you for making it, I remember those days. It was the original Dazed and Confused and is said to be Kurt Cobain's favorite movie.
Tim Hunter (the co-writer on stage) also directed an amazing 80s cult-classic film (also about deviant kids) called RIVER'S EDGE (with keanu reeves, crispin glover, dennis hopper & ione skye)... i heard someone refer to OTE & RIVER'S EDGE as the "Hunter Edge movies".... they are both in my all time top 10....
I live in the area this was filmed, about a mile from the Barn Store. I work across the freeway from Cherry Creek reservoir. I think about this movie all the time driving around the area. When the internet first started there used to be a web page a guy made showing lots of filming locations with pictures from the movie and pictures he took when he came here. Sort of a then and now, I often think about redoing it.
I loved this movie.I saw it has a double feature with Little Darlings at a Portland,OR drive-in in 1980.There was 8 of us in a baby blue Ford Pinto station wagon.I was 15 at the time,being a hoodlum,both drunk and stoned.We had to watch it twice because our car would not start,so we waited to push the car to the street to get a taxi jump.Great movie!!
This is in the top 5 greatest movies of the 70's and easily in the top 20 movies of all time
Best movie soundtrack of all time.
I love this film, just finished watching it again on Exodus! Film from my era, unforgettable.
ALLLLL TIME FAVORITE FILM SINCE I WAS 10!! A KID WHO RATS ON ANOTHER KID IS A DEAD KID!!
AMEN!!!!!!
Definitely a cult classic. Pamela Ludwig looks the same, but Mike Kramer and Tom Fergus wouldn't have recognized them. Early career movie for Matt Dillon and Vincent Spano.
Thank for posting this. Being a fan since seeing it on HBO back in 1981, I really wanted to go however work took precedence. Here is hoping they do another one of these soon.
This was simply GREAT! Thanks so much for posting.
I couldn't wait for that movie to come out on DVD. And when it finally did, I must have spent about $15-20 purchasing it. But it was worth it.
It'd be cool to see Vincent spano and Matt dillon
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this movie was a big inspiration for Larry Clark to make the 90s film KIDS... in an interview, Larry talks about how kids never act like "real kids" in any movies, but he said OTE was the exception... both OTE and KIDS do an amazing job of honestly portraying the youth of their time... both movies have a very realistic feeling, in part, because both used "real kids", and not actors...
I wish they seated Michael & Pamela together.
Was born in '69, small town life, so when I saw this as a kid a decade or so later it made sense to me. Looking back, this movie's depiction seems more accurate to my memories of that era than does Dazed & Confused.
This movie was an excellent depiction of growing up during the seventies. The events it portrays (drug use, rioting, fighting) could have occurred anywhere.
One of my top 10 movies everrrrrr. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Michael Kramer's acting is fascinating. Cant believe he wasnt bigger.
Best movie ever! Absolutely ruined me! This movie never gets old!
Yessss! I watch at least once a year....never gets old!
WOW!! Unbelievable!! Loved this movie when it came out... Still love watching it... Definitely helped put Cheap Trick on the map LOL
I saw this years ago on HBO and now I own it and watch it often. This is almost exactly what I was doing back then..out running cops getting stoned on pot and going to kegs...i would love to go back and do it all over again.
My generation lived this film to the extreme in real life. And where this film ended our real story began in Huntington, Long Island NY. There were so many drugs and insanity from our elementary school and up. I know in the real story that inspired the film it took place in the early 1970s in outskirts of San Francisco. This film gave birth to a generation of hard charging, pedal to the medal high risk takers that now has more then 50% of it's classmates dotting the Long Island and NYC cemeteries. I personally have lost over 100 family, friends and acquaintances to anything from drugs, murder, prison or death by misadventure. We can only now analyze the toll of those days and count the wreckage and lost lives cut way too short. I miss a lot of them. One thing is for sure and that is this film really tapped into the climate of that early time in our lives. A splendid job in my opinion on everyone involved.
Matt Dillon is a absolute Icon of my generation of Actors who, has that leading Man Edge, that Dark Bad Boy but a soul that is real and flawed so we can relate to his own struggles in his performances Hes a very special talent I believe is very underrated However, not to his fans that respect him because his a very private man and that makes him even more of a Bad-Ass to me" ,,, His role in "CRASH " was incredible!! , I was so fucking excited he took the leading role in the " Shyamalan " thriller "Wayward Pines" Dillon said only reason he even took the role was because on Shyamalan " seeing Matt Dillon on the small screen was a "Masterpiece" performance "!! Who's the Black actor in "CRASH and "Wayward Pines "? He's the crooked sheriff "" well anyway he's a very good friend of Dillions and he said he did that show because of him also'
THIS IS AWESOME
The use of Van Halens music in this film amps up the nostalgia and sentiment of this film by a factor of 1000!
What a night! Thanks for the vid.
Loved the film. It was truly a sign of the times. Could have been my neighborhood.
Just re-watched the movie a few days ago because it's been awhile since I had. Came back to it because of Valerie Carter and her version of "Ooh, Child". Loved the movie, but I have to agree that the soundtrack definitely gave it more life and meaning !! I actually have the vinyl album in my collection !
Good old Days 75/76 my HS Days
Best movie of all time
4:04 One word....DOBERMAN!
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Loved watching this!
And thanks for the Litto edit.
I was 8 when this movie came out but watched it growing up times where better back then
Was anyone else mesmerized by Cori dancing with the hand gun to Cheap Trick? Feels like such a odd thing to type, but I completely remember feeling almost entranced by it.
A really good film rarely seen.
Loved this movie 👍
Geez! I was 15 most of the year in 1979 (November was my 16th) . . .
We didn’t act like that! 😊 Good flick! Love Spano and Dillon!
Wanted to see if Tiger Thompson was on here. I think that's Tom Fergus on the end.
Its Tom
Tiger Thompson's character Johnny Zachary should have been developed way more.
my only complaint about the movie
I loved this movie.Any movie Matt Dillon is in I'm very eager to watch it.
Great Music 🎶 Soundtrack
The Red head still looks great !
I'm working on a film and just have to say WTG!
Mommy's all right, Daddy's allright....they just seem a little weeeeird, surrender... surrendeeeer...but don't give yourself awaaaay, aaaay, aaaaay, aaay!! 🎵🎵🎵🎶👍🏼
A Cult Classic alienated teen movie which featured actual teenaged actors. It was so refreshing to see this after watching tv and movies with 25 and 26 year olds playing 14 and 15 years olds. Easily relatable for my then 12 or 13 year old self.
I managed the only 7-11 in Foster City back in the late 70's early 80's and there really didn't seem like there was much for kids to do other than hang out at my work and I really loved the kids, but they spent a lot of their parents REAL silver at my store and they also shop-lifted, but that is probably true most places, at least back then. I have not seen the movie, but am dying to. Is it available online? I want to watch it right now!
JoJo Winfield The cut ending is they had Johnny take a switch blade & key cars at the 7-11
@@wow77777 my only complaint about movie
Johnny was coolest, yet move undeveloped character.
he could be his own movie.
This film 🎥 really got that 70s Teen Angst down pat
Over the Edge completely reflected growing up in the Bronx as well during the late 1970's.
Pretty much everywhere. I am a Miami Boy and the late 70's and most of the 80's were not only pretty much valueless, there was no real sense of morality. The sheer amount of money made everybody blind to the origin of it. This movie is a very good representation of my entire neighborhood and all of us teenagers. I was Matt Dillon. Except I lived. Wasn't easy.
Yep. It was like that in Houston back then too.
@@michaelchmiel166 miami. from Over the Edge to Scarface. lols.
nobody was blind to origin of 305's money in the 80s!
And if you look at some of the pictures from the set you see Dillon has a Larchmont tshirt on
Where can the whole interviews be found?
Great FLICK !!!! Misfits 4 Life. !! Great cheap Trick songs
Didn't seem like I was watching a movie, great film.
That movie is awesome, and the music kicks ass! I had the biggest crush on Pam, I always wondered what ever happened to her!
The movie came out in '79, but was only in the theaters for a few weeks
In 1980, I saw it on cable.......I was 14
My life is different now, and this movie does not mean as much to Me as it did.
But by saying that, it was a sign of the times.......does Warriors mean anything to anyone?
How about Carrie?
I remember being scared of this movie as a kid. But watching it again as an adult I remember hanging out in the park with everyone bdrinking and acting crazy and that was the 90's
This is the best movie of all times
What the hell? Matt Dilllon isn't there? WTF? One of my top 10 films ever....
the first time I watched this movie, I thought, shit someone got it right...1979 I was 15, drank my first beer, first joint...and lost my virginity...great year...
1979 I was 13. drank my first beer, lost my virginity but never smoked pot. also a great year.
i was 12. I just remember getting beat up and harassed all the time. And tha's by my brothers! I was "over the edge".
@@mickeymouse2able being kid in 70s was like being in the mafia. only moreso.
worthy channel about growing up in 70s; we're not the only ones who miss it.
www.youtube.com/@johnmastandrea137/videos
Badass! Rebelz
They keep contradicting the suit guys answers.
Love this movie...
Best movie ever
Where's Outlaw the tall blonde dude with the other bad guy?
In the later 7o's. People were leaving the city's and moving their family to new housing developments that were usually over an hours ride away, and the parents still had to go back and work in the city leaving a hole little community of kids alone all day and because of the long ride and traffic a parent might not be home until 7 or 8 at night It was crazy. That's a long time for groups of bored teenage kids to be unsupervised and the police not knowing how to handle the situation just made things worse. It was like the lord of the fly's sometimes. it really got that bad. Except for the taking over of the school my community was just like the movie I couldn't believe how the actors reminded me of real people.
Where's Matt Dillon?
This was screened at the Lincoln Center WTF Was the Pussycat Theater occupied?