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River's Edge (1986)
This is a true story...
A lot of people don't realize that this is based on a true story. I knew and went to jr high and high school with the people involved. This actually happened during our first year of high school. The characters were exaggerated a bit. I remember the kids coming back to school and talking about seeing a dead body and poking it with a stick. The girl who was killed was actually a very quiet and sweet girl who happened to befriend the wrong person. A lot of people were afraid of him and thought he was weird and avoided him. He wanted to be more than friends, she wasn't interested so he killed her (so the story goes). Google Marcy Conrad to get the real story. For me knowing what really happened and seeing this movie don't jive but overall it was a decent movie.
The Departed (2006)
Love this movie!
This is far from the typical gangster movie. It has an AMAZING cast. I found it to be highly suspenseful and there seems to be little to no characteristics that separate the so-called good guys from the bad. With every call or text you think this could be it and someones cover is about to get blown. I'm not going to write a 20 paragraph review but I will say that if you like suspense and gangster movies this is the movie for you. Other reviewers complained about the number of F bombs that were dropped in the movie and felt it was unnecessary - technically cursing is never "necessary" but that is how people in this lifestyle communicate. The last 10 minutes of the movie was all shock...we try to guess how a movie will end but I had it all wrong.