River Phoenix Trailers
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River Jude Phoenix (née Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor, musician, and activist.
Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as the oldest brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix. He had no formal schooling, but he showed an instinctive talent for the guitar, and he played and sang on the streets for money. He began his acting career at age 10 in a handful of television commercials. He starred in the science fiction adventure film Explorers (1985) and had his breakthrough role in 1986's Stand by Me, a coming-of-age film based on the novella The Body by Stephen King.
Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty (1988), playing Danny Pope, the son of fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (at age 18, he became the sixth-youngest nominee in the category), and My Own Private Idaho (1991), playing Michael Waters, a gay hustler in search of his estranged mother. For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 1991 Venice Film Festival as well as Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, becoming the second-youngest winner of the former.
Phoenix fought heroin addiction and died at age 23 from combined drug intoxication in West Hollywood in the early hours of Halloween, 1993, after unknowingly ingesting cocaine and heroin (a mixture commonly known as a speedball) at The Viper Room.
Most Popular River Phoenix Trailers
Total trailers found: 32
12 October 1986
Georgia Benfield, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child.
24 May 1989
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail.
08 August 1986
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body.
11 November 1994
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
27 September 2012
Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site in the desert.
09 September 1992
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy.
17 March 1988
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
12 July 1985
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books.
01 February 1991
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy.
06 April 1990
Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is a womanizer and has been cheating on her for a long time, she goes to extreme lengths to punish him.
26 November 1986
An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.
10 February 1985
Lonnie and Rick seem to be complete opposites, at first glance. A survivor of suicide, Lonnie is introverted and ill at ease around her parents, Lois and Harvey.
09 September 1988
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign.
01 March 2005
Making-of documentary of Gus Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho'.
04 October 1991
In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship out with three of his buddies for a tour of duty in Vietnam.
27 August 1993
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
01 January 1994
This classic Vegan Society video remains one of the most entertaining and informative introductions to veganism.
01 February 1994
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him.
01 December 2023
An in-depth look at an incredible moment in film history when Steven Spielberg and George Lucas assembled an amazing creative team to collaborate on another cinematic benchmark featuring never-before-seen footage and interviews with Spielberg, Lucas, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, James Mangold, and many others as well.
18 July 2003
From Disturbing Discoveries to Astonishing Arressts, and Tragic Endings. In this tv-special, E! countdowns the greatest moments in the entertainment industry that shocked the American Public.
19 February 2012
Unused footage from Gus Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho is re-contextualized in James Franco's tribute to River Phoenix.
29 August 2000
A unique look at the making of Stand by Me including interviews from Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell.
26 February 1988
A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job.
12 May 2024
The story of the rise to stardom of Joaquin Phoenix, an actor of magnetic physique, tumultuous past, socially committed, who for years has offered outstanding performances.
04 January 1991
A galvanizing indictment of how we are sabotaging our children's development and our society's future that will transform the way we think about our families, schools, and lives.
21 October 2003
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.
03 June 2003
Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of ‘Sneakers’ (1992).
07 March 1984
13-year-old Brian has problems reading, which his teachers attribute to laziness. It is later discovered that he has Dyslexia.
01 January 1992
StarLicks Bass Video-Tutorial / Includes 24 Page Booklet / Flea Interviewed By River Phoenix
13 November 1996
A documentary tribute to River Phoenix stressing the impact that River Phoenix had on gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals.
27 May 2006
Final 24 recreates River Phoenix's last day to tell the tragic tale of a young man whose short life was dominated by the constant pressure to perform.
01 January 2005
In this trans-temporal science fiction, a young River Phoenix from the film The Explorers (1985) opens a wormhole to contact his older self in My Own Private Idaho (1991).
