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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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon & David Strathairn | |
Performer: | Joseph Mazzello & John C. Reilly | |
Directed by | Curtis Hanson | |
Edited by | David Brenner | |
Produced by | David Foster |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Awe-inspiring white water thrills... -- Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
Another 1990s domestic parable chastising workaholic dads, The River Wild also functions as a gorgeous travelogue and a Meryl Streep action film.
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LarsenOnFilm
A stale product of Movieland mechanics, diluted from Griffith's Way Down East and John Boorman's Deliverance, this picture is just one more reason to worry about an outstanding talent.
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The New Republic
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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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)
...A pulse-pounding thrill ride....Streep is strong, sassy and looser than she has ever been onscreen...
Rolling Stone
The perfect high old time for audiences in the mood to be tossed into the spin cycle for a pulse-pounding thrill ride.
Rolling Stone
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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- Sales Rank: 10,361
- UPC: 025192004322
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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