The River
MovieTitle | The River |
User score | 6.2 |
Release date | Dec 1, 1984 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Mark Rydell |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Universal Pictures |
Budget | $18,000,000 |
Revenue | $11,500,000 |
Run time | 122 min. |
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.