1 hr 32 min
On the Edge’ movie is about the influence of public opinion on a person. Dima is a young dancer. After his parents’ divorce he moves to Kiev from Lviv together with his mother, gets into university, where he continues to dance while studying. Because of his hobby, manner of talking and moving, other students don’t accept Dima and consider him homosexual. At the same time, another group of young people of unusual sexual orientation notices Dima. The head of this group is a senior student who is also a dancer discovers “hidden signals” in Dima’s behavior and considers him one of them. Not being understood by his own mother and still trying to figure out what to do with his life, Dima accepts his new friend’s opinion about him as the truth until one night.
Cast:
Jared Moses, Jay Roberts Jr., Kenny McMurphy, Mark Parra
Genre:
Drama
Rating:
Not Rated
On the Edge Collectors Edition
Dove "Faith-Friendly" - Recommended for ages 12 and over.
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Sex: None
Language: H (as a place)-2
Violence: a few characters are injured after falling from a great height including a young man who has a bloody and broken leg, a young woman falls into the icy water, and a young man who falls a great distance is knocked out for a time
Drugs: A young adult displays a marijuana cigarette but does not light it or smoke it and admits he struggles but doesn't want to after he first asks, "What's an occasional joint?"; a woman imagines herself partying and with a champagne bottle; talk of partying and drinking and about previously using drugs; a college student has beer cans in his room.
Nudity: A few photos of women not wearing much, one in swimwear, are seen on a college student's wall.
Other: Tension between characters, discussions, sometimes a bit heated, about the existence of God; a discussion about the Big Bang theory and Creationism; a girl's minister father died after a hit-and-run accident; a mother was not treated well by the church people and her daughter struggles with this.
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- Reviewer: Edwin L. Carpenter
- Source: Video
- Writer: Rick Garside
- Director: Rick Garside
- Producer: Rick Garside
- Review provided courtesy of The Dove Foundation.
