The seniors at River’s Edge love a good party. Laundry services and housekeeping eliminate daily chores, and the wholesome food program provides home-cooked meals three times daily, plus snacks.Ī Happy Home Filled with Fun Friends and Activities Medical providers are available to provide medical checks and on-site care. Medication management lets residents and family members breathe easy, knowing there’s no risk that doctors’ orders will be forgotten. The dedicated staff is available 24 hours a day to assist with daily activities such as bathing, grooming, and dressing. The spacious homes include utilities, individual climate control, and satellite TV. River’s Edge offers a choice of private or joint apartments close to the action in this thriving assisted living community. Laundry services and housekeeping eliminate Residents celebrate holidays, indulge in their creative passions, and enjoy delicious BBQs, the compassionate staff helps with any challenges, and the warm, welcoming community makes it easy to feel at home with friends. Conveniently close to the shopping, restaurants, parks, and hospitals of Yuma, Arizona, River’s Edge makes it easy to enjoy fun-filled days in the sunniest place on Earth. Seniors at River’s Edge always get to walk on the sunny side of the street. And many of us are doing everything in our power to prevent our kids and other youths from experiencing it.Seniors Enjoy Bright Days in the Sunniest City on Earth However, those who grew up in the dysfunctional insanity depicted in the film understand it fully. People who have grown up in loving homes with positive role models & friends probably won't like "River's Edge." They'll likely think it's trash. It plays like a mid-80's version of Coppola's "The Outsiders" (1983), which was about early 60's youths note, for instance, the seemingly incongruent melodramatic score (there's also a great metal soundtrack, but the songs are merely soundbites). BOTTOM LINE: Glover steals the show with an over-the-top (yet believable) performance in a film that details the dark side of coming-of-age in modern America. The film runs 99 minutes and was shot in California (Sacramento, La Crescenta and Los Angeles). Most of the characters are neither likable nor unlikable they're just human beings trying to live and find meaning or fulfillment with the hand they've been dealt. This was (and is) the downside of the 60's revolution - a somewhat sad emptiness in people who have lost their innate moral compass with the passing of religious faith as they desperately search for meaning or cause in the new secular frontier (Layne's "cause" in the film is rigid loyalty to John, since he had "his reasons" for murdering the girl, and covering up his crime). The group dynamics of such youths and the unwritten law of not being a "narc." - Killing a friend and leaving the body where it lies for a couple of days. Older, crazy dudes that the youths sometimes hang with, get drugs from or look up to. Parents who aren't much more than phantoms in their kid's lives and therefore allow such. Kids, that young and older, out all night doing whatever (partying, having sex, crime). Kids as young as 11-13 obsessed with "partying." - The idolization of drugs (pot, pills, etc.) and the party lifestyle above all else.Here are some of the things in the movie that I've also experienced: What struck me about the film was how much it reminded me of real life experiences, both as a youth growing up and also as an adult dealing with youths. Daniel Roebuck plays the lumbering murderer and his clueless friends are played by Keanu Reeves, Crispin Glover and Ione Skye, amongst others Dennis Hopper is on hand as an aged biker/hippie. "River's Edge" (1986) was based on a true story that took place in 1981: a high school student murders his girlfriend and tells his friends at school about it the group goes to view the body in the woods but they're so apathetic and spiritually bereft that no one informs the authorities and the body just lies there for a couple of days.
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