The River Wild PG-13

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The River Wild
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG-13
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 9, 1997
  • Originally Released: 1994
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten56%

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Total Count: 32

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 46,897
O'Neill proves to be a squeamish screenwriter. He doesn't allow his villain to do anything truly unnerving until the story's nearly done. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 3/5 -- A buff Streep vs. bad guy Bacon on a wild river journey in which good acting overcomes several cliches.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Dec 11, 2007
...[Bacon] makes a fine counterpoint to [Streep]... - Recommended
Premiere
Apr 1, 1995
...THE RIVER WILD takes your breath away two times over....Streep has taken this opportunity to once again rewrite the rules...
Los Angeles Times
Sep 30, 1994
Streep catches the exhilaration of a housewife high on a little danger -- and of an upmarket actress in her first action movie. Full Review
Independent on Sunday
Nov 30, 2017
[A] likable caper. Full Review
The Spectator
Aug 30, 2018
Rating: 2/4 -- Constructed from so many ideas, characters and situations recycled from other movies that all the way down the river I kept thinking: Been there. Done that. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000

Product Description:

In THE RIVER WILD, Gail (Meryl Streep), a former river guide, plans a white-water rafting trip to celebrate her son Roarke's (Joseph Mazzello) birthday and patch up her troubled marriage to her workaholic husband, Tom (David Strathairn). As the family begins their river adventure, they meet Wade (Kevin Bacon), a novice rafter with a magnetic personality. When the family finds Wade and his friend, Terry (John C. Reilly), stranded and abandoned by their guide, Gail and Tom decide to help them navigate the rapids. However, family fun turns to terror when Wade and Terry show their true colors--they're really criminals trying to evade the police following a major heist. To make matters worse, their escape route requires that they run the Gauntlet, deadly rapids where three rivers converge in violently tumultuous waters. This taut thriller from director Curtis Hanson (BAD INFLUENCE, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) features Streep in her first role as an action-adventure heroine, while Bacon is truly menacing as the psychotic Wade, a desperate criminal in over his head.

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Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 6,091
  • UPC: 025192004322
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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