Movie
The River
Overview
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
Details
- Release date
- 1984-12-01
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Mel Gibson as Tom Garvey
- Sissy Spacek as Mae Garvey
- Scott Glenn as Joe Wade
- Billy Green Bush as Harve Stanley
- Shane Bailey as Lewis Garvey
- Becky Jo Lynch as Beth Garvey
- Don Hood as Senator Neiswinder
- James Tolkan as Howard Simpson
- Bob W. Douglas as Hal Richardson
- Andy Stahl as Dave Birkin
- Lisa Sloan as Judy Birkin
- Larry D. Ferrell as Rod Tessley
Crew
- Mark Rydell - Director
- Robert Dillon - Screenplay
- Julian Barry - Screenplay
- Robert Dillon - Story
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