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River Jude Phoenix (né Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor. Phoenix was known as a teen actor before taking on leading roles in critically acclaimed films. He received numerous accolades, including the Volpi Cup and the Independent Spirit Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award .
It took Samantha Mathis 25 years and a single viewing of The Thing Called Love, a 1993 dramedy in which she starred alongside then boyfriend River Phoenix, to be able to talk about his death.
River Phoenix's family is honoring him 31 years after his death. Sharing a photo of a deer, the Stand by Me actor's mother Arlyn "Heart" Phoenix wrote on Instagram, "My son River passed over on ...
Friends alum Matthew Perry reflected on Phoenix, his co-star in the 1988 movie A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, in his new memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. "River was a ...
Despite the death of River Phoenix the year the venue opened, the club became and remained a hangout for Hollywood's most popular young actors and musicians. Adam Duritz , the lead singer of Counting Crows , worked as a Viper Room bartender in late 1994 and early 1995 to escape his newfound fame.
The website's consensus reads: "The last film River Phoenix completed before his death, The Thing Called Love doesn't have much new to say about show business, but it's energetic and well-acted." [ 9 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 46 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
On the 30th anniversary of his death, we’re republishing this article in his memory. “It’s really designed, I think, to strip you and blend you. It’s like feeling like the invisible man.
On the evening of October 30, 1993, they set out, joined by River's girlfriend Samantha Mathis, for a night at the Los Angeles club The Viper Room. It would be the last evening Phoenix would spend with her brother River; he died later that night from, according to the coroner's report, "acute multiple drug intoxication," namely an overdose of ...