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Jan 11, 1985 · The River: Directed by Mark Rydell. With Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Shane Bailey, Becky Jo Lynch. A farming family battles severe storms, while taking a valiant stand against a bank foreclosure and a powerful land grabber.
Tom and Mae Garvey (Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek) are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the...
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Screenplay by. Robert Dillon. Julian Barry. "The River" has some basic problems anyway, but it might have seemed like a much fresher film if it were not, as everybody knows by now, the third of Hollywood's "save the farm" movies released since last September.
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.
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A farming family battles severe storms, while taking a valiant stand against a bank foreclosure and a powerful land grabber. 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.
The River is a drama film from 1984, directed by Mark Rydell, that centers on the lives of a farming family in rural Tennessee. The movie stars Mel Gibson as Tom, Sissy Spacek as Mae, and Shane Bailey as their son, Hank.
