The River PG-13

The River
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 23, 1999
  • Originally Released: 1984
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Academy Awards 1984 - Best Sound Effects Editing: Not Applicable

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 6,257
Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson suffer admirably as the farm couple, but their roles have no real dimension. Full Review
Associated Press
Jul 22, 2019
Rating: B -- Starring Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek, The River is one of three films dealing with the plight of American farmers which came out in the same year, 1984. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Aug 12, 2011
Rating: 2/4 -- The crucial flaw in the movie's plot is that [Scott] Glenn's ideas, which are supposed to make him the bad guy, sound like simple common sense. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jun 20, 2018
...[With] extraordinary cinematography: nobody can shoot a twilight sky or a water-soaked field quite like Vilmos Zsigmond...
Sight and Sound
Jul 1, 2001
...THE RIVER offers many fine moments and several strong performances....[The] photography is a joy to watch...
Variety
Nov 14, 1984

Product Description:

In this powerful film about the fragility of the American dream, Mae and Tom Garvey (Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson) are farmers at a time (the mid-1980s) when bankers, real-estate agents, and nature itself threaten to destroy their way of life. When the local river floods and nearly destroys the farms around it, hardship hits the area. The Garveys are also at odds with the local power authority and one of its chief officers, Joe Wade (Scott Glenn), who has plans to build a dam and flood the land for a hydroelectric project. Though the family stoically attempts to continue working its farm, massive debts and a poor season finally force Tom Garvey to accept a low-paying factory job as a scab. As they struggle to keep going, Wade hovers vulturelike over the Garvey farm, waiting for its demise. Director Mark Rydell's THE RIVER is a truly beautiful, subtly heartwrenching, and unique film that captures the seldom-seen pleasures of living and growing up in an endangered world--that of the family farm. When the Garveys and their children work the land and tend the animals proudly and happily, their sun-drenched farm seems like paradise.

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  • UPC: 025192042720
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