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 ...

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In this trans-temporal science fiction, a young River Phoenix from the film The Explorers (1985) opens a wormhole to contact his older self in My Own Private Idaho (1991). Haunted by the spectre ...