Movies by River Phoenix
As part of the cast:
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Silent Tongue (1994)
Cast: Richard Harris, Sheila Tousey, Alan Bates …
Directed by: Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard directs this tale, circa 1873, of a young half-Native American who's kidnapped from her drunken white father by a cowboy named Prescott Roe. Seems Roe wants her for his…
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The Thing Called Love (1993)
Cast: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Aspiring country singer Miranda Presley (Samantha Mathis) follows her dream to Nashville and finds herself falling for two very different men whom she meets at an audition. James Wright…
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Sneakers (1992)
Cast: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley …
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his offbeat team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking "black box" from a Soviet-funded genius, they…
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Dogfight (1991)
Cast: River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco …
Directed by: Nancy Savoca
Four young Marines spending their last night stateside in San Francisco before shipping out to Vietnam stage a dogfight: The Marine who finds the ugliest "date" and brings her to a party…
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My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Cast: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo …
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Gus Van Sant's indie hit hones in on the friendship between Mike (River Phoenix) and Scott (Keanu Reeves), two hustlers living on the streets of gritty Portland, whose relationship…
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I Love You to Death (1990)
Cast: Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright …
Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan directed this comedy based on an improbably true story about a philandering husband, Joey (Kevin Kline), whose long-suffering wife, Rosalie (Tracey Ullman), finally uncovers…
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Fedora and whip at the ready, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) sets off on his third cinematic outing accompanied by none other than his father, Henry (Sean Connery), to explore the cradle of…
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Running on Empty (1988)
Cast: Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, River Phoenix …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
After they bomb a napalm plant during the Vietnam War, Arthur and Annie Pope (Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti) are fugitives, never able to settle down in one place for too long. Years later,…
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A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
Cast: River Phoenix, Ann Magnuson, Meredith Salenger …
Directed by: William Richert
Thanks to his hardworking parents, Jimmy Reardon (River Phoenix) attends a wealthy school, where he's made friends with all the rich kids. On the eve of graduation, his girlfriend…
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Little Nikita (1988)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins …
Directed by: Richard Benjamin
Jeff Grant (River Phoenix) is an 'all-American high school student applying to the Air Force Academy. During a routine background check, FBI agent Roy Parmenter (Sidney Poitier) uncovers…
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The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Martha Plimpton, River Phoenix …
Directed by: Peter Weir
Troubled inventor Allie Fox (Harrison Ford) is uprooting his wife (Helen Mirren) and son (River Phoenix) and moving them to Central America, obsessed with building an ice factory in the…
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Stand by Me (1986)
Cast: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman …
Directed by: Rob Reiner
In this Rob Reiner dramatization of Stephen King's novella The Body, a writer (Richard Dreyfuss) tells the story of how four boys sought adventure and heroism in the Oregon woods with…
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Explorers (1985)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Bobby Fite …
Directed by: Joe Dante
In his film debut, Ethan Hawke stars as 14-year-old Ben Crandall, a misfit and science whizz who dreams, with best friend Wolfgang (River Phoenix), of space travel and manages to create an…