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VHS : The River Wild [1995]

starring: Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, Stephanie Sawyer, Joseph Mazzello
directed by: Curtis Hanson


Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5024165667347 Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound Label: 4 Front Video Manufacturer: 4 Front Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 4 Front Video Release Date: April 02, 2001 Running Time: 106 minutes Sales Rank: 10394 Studio: 4 Front Video Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 1994	Average Rating:
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Meryl Streep tried her hand at action films with this Curtis Hanson film and proved herself quite credible, bringing emotion as well as the willingness to kick butt. She plays a suburban mum and former white-water rafting guide who is taking her family on a raft trip for summer vacation. But overworked Dad (David Strathairn) can't make the trip so she and her son leave without him--and walk right into trouble. Killers on the run (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly) abduct them and force Streep to take them down the most dangerous stretch of river to elude the cops. Hanson understands how to pace and construct this kind of action fodder but it's strictly formula stuff, enlivened only by the depth of Streep's portrayal and the viciousness of Bacon's character. --Marshall Fine

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Meryl Streep tried her hand at action films with this Curtis Hanson film and proved herself quite credible, bringing emotion as well as the willingness to kick butt. She plays a suburban mum and former white-water rafting guide who is taking her family on a raft trip for summer vacation. But overworked Dad (David Strathairn) can't make the trip, so she and her son leave without him--and walk right into trouble. Killers on the run (Kevin Bacon, John C. Reilly) abduct them and force Streep to take them down the most dangerous stretch of river to elude the cops. Hanson understands how to pace and construct this kind of action fodder, but it's strictly formula stuff, enlivened only by the depth of Streep's portrayal and the viciousness of Bacon's character. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- River heroism
A beautiful film about the Colorado River. The hero is the river and the nature it crosses, the gorges and the rapids and the falls. And you will go down the river in a light boat. Beautiful indeed. Then the film sets a plot on that river of a nice vacationing family held hostage by the surviving thieves of a cattle auction robbery who try to escape the police after the robbery by using the river and the expertise of the mother of this family. This adds some family tension with a father who is working ... Read More

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- Brilliant film with great actors
Film starts with a disintergrating family unit. Workaholic architect dad ignores and is irritated by his family, so that all laughing stops when he gets home from work. He never joins in the fun and cancels holidays. Wife Gail(Meryl Streep) believes their marriage to be over as he disappoints their young son yet again, cancelling a family trip. However mother and son set off on their own to navigate a river by dinghy that Gail knew as a young girl (she had even worked as a river guide). As they are ... Read More

Rating:

- THE BEST
I Love this film, it makes you jump out of your skin on many occasions, and the rafting scenes are spectacular, considering Meryl Streep did all her own stunt work. It's one of my favourite films ever, oh and the music is really good in it aswell.

Rating:

- This is so good
This is sush a clether filum. It made mee jump in sevral places. I enjoyed it becose it left ewe on clifhangers and made ewe wunder wat wood happen next. Onomatopoeia. If ewe lik filums thut wil maque ewe rellly scard then ewe wil enju this. ewe haf two bee very old two bee old enuffe two watch this thogh.

Rating:

- Better than I expected.
I sat down to watch this .. not really expecting to sit through the whole thing but I did. The reasons why are as follows. The director: Curtis Hanson knows his stuff and has paced the film perfectly. He's also the director of the masterpiece 'L.A. Confidential'. The Cast: Meryl Streep is well suited to her role and has some great moments in the film but Kevin Bacon wipes the floor with all the other actors. His portrayal of the evil robber is fantastic. He was born for the role. The plot: The story line ... Read More

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