River Phoenix
Actor
- Explorers, The (1985)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix
- Imaginative space adventure film also has enormous fun at the expense of American popular culture. Among the explorers are a very baby–faced…
- Mosquito Coast, The (1986)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix
- A knock–out thriller about the woes of obsession with Harrison Ford as the idealistic inventor who drags his family into the thick of the South…
- Stand by Me (1986)
- Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman…
- Stephen King adaptation has its darker moments, as four boys journey across 50s rural Maine to see a dead body, but a genuine feeling for childhood…
- Running On Empty (1988)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Christine Lahti…
- A married couple, on the run for activist crimes in the 1960s, come to terms with their childrens' right to be free.
A moving story, handled with…
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott…
- When Sean Connery turns up as Indy's feisty dad, the pair embark on an adventure–laden search for a mystical Holy Grail. You'll have fun…
- I Love You to Death (1990)
- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright…
- Kevin Kline heads a great cast in this endearing black comedy about an embittered housewife who creatively tries to bump off her chronically…
- Dogfight (1991)
- Dir. Nancy Savoca
Feat. River Phoenix, Lili Taylor
- Satisfying romantic comedy about a U.S. marine who surrenders his machismo for one night to have an unlikely and sensitive affair with an 'ugly…
- My Own Private Idaho (1991)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, James Russo…
- Melancholic tale imbued with the director's stylistic flair stars Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix as a pair of young hustlers with opposing personal…
- Sneakers (1992)
- Dir. Phil Alden Robinson
Feat. Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley, Sidney Poitier…
- This reworks the spy–caper genre to dazzling effect as an endearing team of security crackpots attempt to outwit bad egg Ben Kingsley whose…
- Thing Called Love, The (1993)
- Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney…
- River Phoenix's final film in which, sadly, his fatal affliction is plainly evident. Set in Nashville, he aspires to country–rock stardom but…