Rivers Edge

Rivers Edge

NR 2025 · ★ 7.0 · Drama

Everyone has dreams. For high schoolers Kash, Hadley, and Riley, their dream is to travel. To explore the world after they graduate high school. As big as the dream is, there are things in the way of that. Hoping to overcome these obstacles, this trio of teenagers has to navigate their senior year of high school, home lives, relationships, and the good old figuring out what they want to do with their lives. Will that get in the way of their dream?

Directed by Michael Russillo · Written by Piper Pavelich

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