Ethan Hawke met river River Phoenix when he was 14 and stayed close friends with the actor until he died of an overdose at 23 Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

"Stand By Me" star River Phoenix joined the list of celebrities who died before age 30 at the height of his career on ...

This space adventure stars Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix as misfit best friends whose dreams of space travel become a reality when they create an interplanetary spacecraft in their homemade ...