Episode 328: Over the Edge (1979)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2017

⏱️ 321 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Kaplan's Over the Edge (1979) tells the story of a group of disaffected youths growing up in the sterile confines of a remote suburb. Their folks dig on that almighty dollar, seeking to continue to build up the cookie cutter homes of New Granada, even if it means knocking down the local rec center, the only place the kids have to congregate in any sort of civilized manner.

This episode features interviews with co-writers Charlie Haas and Tim Hunter along actors Vincent Spano, Andy Romano, and Harry Northup.

Leon Chase and Heather Drain join Mike to reminisce about the film and their younger days.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:06.8	Welcome to New Granada, where people come to escape city life.
0:11.8	It has safe streets, clean air, good schools.
0:16.5	It's a perfectly planned community.
0:18.8	But something strange is happening.
0:20.7	There is a second, five, go. It's a perfectly planned community. But something strange is happening.
0:27.7	Something that wasn't part of the plan.
0:31.2	Seems to me like you all were in such a hopped-up hurry to get out of the city that you turn your kids into exactly what you're trying to get away from.
0:34.3	Something that could drive this town over the edge.
0:38.2	You were to take these home to your parents
0:40.0	is to let them know about a special emergency meeting
0:42.8	to discuss the problems about your people.
0:46.0	A kid who tells her another kid.
0:48.7	He's a dead kid.
0:52.0	I don't know how many of us are willing to admit just how deep in trouble some of the kids in the city are.
0:59.9	Tension is rising.
1:01.8	You people talk about these kids like they're a bunch of animals.
1:06.9	Temperes are raging.
1:08.8	Your son and some of his friends are part of this.
1:11.4	My son and his friends are part of this town.
1:16.2	Time is running out.
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