Highest rated movie: Stand by Me (1986)
Lowest rated movie: Silent Tongue (1994)
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Looking for reviews of River Phoenix movies? Cinafilm has a total of 4,167 reviews across 13 movies.
Movies starring River Phoenix have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
Stand by Me - released in 1986 - is River Phoenix's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 812 reviews.
The lowest rated film from River Phoenix is Silent Tongue - released in 1994 - with a score of 48% based on 23 reviews.
River Jude Phoenix (August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an up-and-coming movie star when he died suddenly of drug-induced heart failure in 1993 at the age of 23. His brief career was marked by critically-acclaimed performances in films such as Stand by Me (1986), Running on Empty (1988) and Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho (1991, with Keanu Reeves). Phoenix was the eldest of five children whose itinerant parents were members of a radical Christian group called the Children of God (later known as The Family). His family lived in communes in Oregon, Texas, Puerto Rico and Venezuela before settling in Florida. Pursuing entertainment careers for their children, the parents moved the family to Los Angeles, where Phoenix began getting television jobs in the early 1980s. Although his first feature film was 1985's Explorers (with young Ethan Hawke), it was his stand-out performance in the ensemble drama Stand by Me that gained him national recognition. Phoenix was labeled a promising young actor and his career took off. He co-starred with Harrison Ford in both The Mosquito Coast (1986) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and earned an Oscar nomination for his performance in Running on Empty. His other films include Little Nikita (1988, with Sidney Poitier), Dogfight (1991) and Sneakers (1992, with Robert Redford).
In 1993, outside Johnny Depp's L.A. nightclub, The Viper Room, Phoenix went into cardiac arrest and died, a result of lethal levels of heroin and cocaine.
River Phoenix has acted in films with Bradley Gregg, Keanu Reeves, Harrison Ford and Dermot Mulroney.
River Phoenix has worked with these film directors: Steven Spielberg, Peter Weir, Sam Shepard and Rob Reiner.
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