'A kid who tells on another kid is a dead kid'

Jonathan Kaplan was one of the first Directors to fully understand youth culture and do the kids justice.



In his 1979 film 'Over The Edge', Kaplan sets the scene of a planned community where the parents only worry is coffee mornings, picture perfect homes and how to attract business to the area. The kids are left mostly to their own devices and when their local youth club is closed down they take it to the streets and make their voices heard through chaos and destruction.



Starring the very young Matt Dillon in his first screen role. Sick film, sick sound track.