Very best movie i ever watch

Good movie but grossly overrated

A Masterpiece!

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

I've been a fan of this movie since it was first released, well, since I first saw it anyway. I'm not a guy comfortable with the display of emotions, however, this movie does have a tendency to draw them out of me. A movie telling a story about a kid who by all accounts appears to have everything going for him just can't cope and decides to take the easy way out and kill himself.The emotional value for me is particularly in one scene, where Keanu Reeves is driving drunk, and when confronted he breaks down in tears, the common emotions "I should have known" Well, this movie brings up all of these emotions for me being as I have been surrounded by death, within a week of working my first job I discovered the body of a man who committed suicide, my best friend died at a young age, my pregnant fiancé was killed in a car accident, couple other friends committed suicide.So this movie will always carry a special meaning for me, I tend to watch it a couple of times a year at which time I reflect upon those that I have lost. (Yes, I always watch it alone)

I am trying to find the song that Lauren sings instead of the pinafore song after David kills himself. The song starts like Life goes on...as sure as the sun...I will go on...I watched this movie when I was in high school and have trying to find that song forever...please help..I believe it is the song that Chris was writing...It has been a very long time since I have seen that movie. The only scene I really remember is when Chris was yelling after David when he jumped off the cliff. Then the parents put up the fence to "keep anyone else from jumping" on the cliff. Chris climbed the fence and was drinking on the cliff.Lauren gets upset at the show when going to sing the pinafore song or the sailor song one of the two she starts singing Chris's song that he and David was writing..

A teenager who seems to have it all commits suicide. It leaves his family and his best friend (Keanu Reeves) asking a lot of questions...and blaming themselves.Good idea, badly handled. For starters this HAS been done before 1988--mostly in TV movies and After School Specials. Aside from some swearing and dialogue (hence the PG-13 rating) this added nothing new. The outcome is predictable and Reeve's attempts at acting were truly painful to watch. He's good NOW but not in 1988. Aside from that his character was dressed like a slob and always looked so dirty is was hard to build up sympathy.That aside the movie is dull. I saw every scene coming and every "surprise" was telegraphed. I basically couldn't wait for this thing to get over.I have a vague recollection of seeing it in a theatre in 1988 and hating it (it bombed BADLY). It still looks lousy almost 20 years later. The subject is worth handling but it's been done better (with better acting) in countless other movies. "Ordinary People" comes to mind. You can skip this one.

Okay, so as far a great cinema goes, this made for TV movie is no gem, however, at the time it was released, teen suicide was a hot topic. Keanu Reeves pretty much gives us the same person he was in "The Rivers Edge", only a little more sensitive. The key scene for me is when he gets drunk and crashes his car in the yard of his friend who died. The father comes out screaming and yelling, the Keanu breaks down, blaming himself for not being able to stop the suicide from happening.As for the vagueness of the reason he the guy committed suicide; can we ever know for sure why some kids feel so hopeless they feel the only exit is death?