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The River Wild
Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.
1994 · Directed by Curtis Hanson · 111 min · Adventure · Thriller · Drama · 11 frames
Tagline
The vacation is over.
Crew
- Screenplay: Denis O'Neill
- Cinematography: Robert Elswit
- Edited by: Joe Hutshing, David Brenner
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Production design: Bill Kenney
- Produced by: Lawrence Turman, David Foster
Cast
- Meryl Streep as Gail Hartman
- David Strathairn as Tom Hartman
- Kevin Bacon as Wade
- John C. Reilly as Terry
- Joseph Mazzello as Roarke Hartman
- Benjamin Bratt as Ranger Johnny
- William Lucking as Frank
- Stephanie Sawyer as Willa
- Elizabeth Hoffman as Gail's Mother
- Victor Galloway as Gail's Father
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: The Turman-Foster Company, Universal Pictures
- Budget: $45,000,000
- Box office: $94,216,343
- Themes: husband wife relationship, strong woman, marriage crisis, boston, massachusetts, montana, river, married couple, robber, architect, matter of life and death
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