Over the Edge

Cory

Richie

Mark

Claude

Doberman

Fred Willat

Sandra Willat

Cole

Julia

Johnny

Tip

Abby

Party Host

Lisa

Marcy

Outlaw

Sloan

Johnson

Principal

Science Teacher

Art Teacher

Lincoln

Hays

PTA Officer (as Susan Von Till)

Alan

Tip's Mother

Richie's Mother

Little Brother

Kid

Kid

Kid

Kid

Kid

Kid

Kid

Kid

Cory's father (uncredited)

After the film's successful run on HBO in 1981, it was selected for a special two-week engagement at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York in December 1981. The response was so positive that the film was booked for regular engagements in several New York theaters the following February.

Was one of the main inspirations for Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' music video.

Andy Romano would later go on to play Murdock in Pump Up the Volume (1990), a movie about repressed teens who rebel at the school.

When the two women are spying on the classroom from behind the glass partition, it's not exactly clear who they are or what they say that prompts Carl to flee the school with Ritchie. One of the women is Tip's mother, who earlier witnessed the boys throwing Tip into the water and Ritchie flashing a gun. She has now come to the school to identify them. The other woman with her is the school's principal, who was seen earlier in the film. Again, many viewers don't immediately pick up on this, due to not recognizing the mother (her face is not seen for too long in either scene) nor being able to hear enough of the brief and muffled conversation to make sense of it. The principal asks her if Tip had mentioned any other names, and Tip's mother says that Tip had mentioned another boy, Claude Zachary.

When Cory shows up at the unfinished house to meet Carl after Richie dies, as she opens the sliding glass doors, it is late in the day, but still a lot of sunlight. The very next shot is of Carl's face, with Cory entering through the sliding glass doors in the background, and it is pitch black outside.

In one scene you can see Matt Dillon (Richie) smashing a car window with a baseball bat after his character died at least 20 minutes earlier in the film.

Mark: Man, one stick of dynamite would do it.

Sloan: Seems to me like you all were in such a hopped-up hurry to get out of the city that you turned your kids into exactly what you were trying to get away from.

Abby: Eat it, you stinkin' pig!