Release Year: 1994 Rating: PG-13 Duration: 108 minutes Director: Curtis Hanson Producer: David Foster, Lawrence Turman
synopsis
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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A gloriously buff Meryl Streep floats--literally--through this lightweight but workable family-in-peril thriller. Streep plays Gail, former white-water river guide turned Boston teacher grown apart from her distant, workaholic husband (David Strathairn). The Rocky Mountain river run designed to Dad back together with Gail and his nine-year old son coincides with the escape of a group of armed robbers--who hijack the family, demanding that Gail take them through an impassable series of cataracts called the Gauntlet.
