The River

The River

🎞️ Movie 124 min US
โ˜… 6.3 /10 1984

He might be able to hold back the river. But could he hold back the greed of man?

Tom and Mae Garvey are a hard working farming couple living with their two children on the east Tennessee farm owned by Tom's family for generations. They and many of their neighbors have hit hard times of late. A downturn in the economy has led to dwindling land prices. But the biggest problem of late has been that their crop land has been prone to flooding as the property is adjacent to a river. Manipulating the powers that be including a local senator and the local bank, Joe Wade, who also grew up in the area and now runs the local milling company that sets the local grain prices, is working behind the scenes to buy up the properties along the river for a song as he wants to build a dam which would flood the Garvey's and others riverfront properties. The dam would generate electricity, but more importantly for Joe it would provide irrigation opportunities for farm properties away from the river, such as his own. Tom already intensely dislikes Joe as he and Mae used to go together. Joe's behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings coupled with the continuation of these and many other farming problems makes it increasingly difficult for the Garveys to hold onto their farm, Tom who seems determined at any cost to stay on the land of his ancestors.

Cast

Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson
Tom Garvey
Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek
Mae Garvey
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Shane Bailey
Lewis Garvey
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Becky Jo Lynch
Beth Garvey
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn
Joe Wade
Don Hood
Don Hood
Senator Neiswinder
Billy Green Bush
Billy Green Bush
Harve Stanley
James Tolkan
James Tolkan
Howard Simpson
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Bob W. Douglas
Hal Richardson
Andy Stahl
Andy Stahl
Dave Birkin
John Williams
John Williams
Composer
Vilmos Zsigmond
Vilmos Zsigmond
Cinematographer

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The River (1984) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
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The River (1984) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]