One of my favorite blogs in the whole wide world is called I Love Hot Dogs. Shannon doesn’t talk about hot dogs, but rather her favorite movies. She puts up a million different film stills of the coolest movies you’ve probably never seen. Now she’s hooking up Platform with her own special column, which is also gonna be about movies, but the best kind: TEEN MOVIES! Obviously the first one is none other than the most epic of teen movies: Over The Edge. If you don’t know about Over The Edge, you better be lying to everyone and saying that you do, because it’s pretty much where you got the idea to live your life.
Over the Edge (1979): Parents just don’t understand.
WORDS : SHANNON MALDONADO
Remember how much you hated your parents when you were a teenager? Every time they came into your room you just wanted to scream “I hate you” and throw a dirty sneaker at the door. In Over the Edge, the bored as fuck kids of New Grenada are ignored and in some cases shunned by their self absorbed parents. They drink, smoke doobies, play with guns, whatever they can so to pass the time in their boring town. At some point their parents become concerned about the happenings at the neighborhood rec center (which looks like a cross between the Maxx and a fallout shelter) and decide to shut it down. This obviously doesn’t go over well with the rugrats.
This film is also Matt Dillon’s screen debut and boy does he let it all hang out! Seriously, he wears not one, but two cropped t-shirts during the movie (!!!) Sorry Dov Charney, Dillon was rocking man midriff way before your scrimmage tri-blend tees. But forget about him for a sec because the best character is little Johnny. He’s a skateboarding mute wearing rock concert tees, suspenders and banana yellow shades with the confidence only kids have. A final note to parents: Don’t mess with your local rec center or your kids might lock you up in a school and blow up your fucking car. Hey, Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
*Bonus points for the soundtrack.
