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The River

Universal (1984)

PG-13

025192042720

6.3

8,373

Drama

United States | English | Color | 02:04

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.

Cast View all

	Mel Gibson	Tom Garvey
	Sissy Spacek	Mae Garvey
	Shane Bailey	Lewis Garvey
	Becky Jo Lynch	Beth Garvey
	Scott Glenn	Joe Wade
	Don Hood	Senator Neiswinder
	Billy Green Bush	Harve Stanley
	James Tolkan	Howard Simpson
	Bob W. Douglas	Hal Richardson
	Andy Stahl	Dave Birkin
	Lisa Sloan	Judy Birkin
	Larry D. Ferrell	Rod Tessley
	Susie Toomey	Sally Tessley
	Kelly Toomey	Lisa Tessley
	Frank Hoyt Taylor	Zemke
	Ivan Green	Smoot
	Desmond Couch	Wilderfoot
	Charles G. Riddle	Youngdall
	Jim Antonio	Dan Gaumer
	Samuel Scott Osborne	Billy Gaumer
	Amy Rydell	Betty Gaumer
	David Hart	Harley
	Barry Primus	Roy
	Mark Erickson	Baines
	Jack Starrett	Swick

Crew View all

Director	Mark Rydell
Writer	Robert Dillon, Julian Barry
Producer	Robert Cortes, Edward Lewis
Musician	John Williams
Photography	Vilmos Zsigmond

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Edition details

Packaging	Keep Case
Nr Discs	1
Screen Ratios	Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed) Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio Tracks	Dolby Digital 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles	English (Closed Captioned) \| Spanish
Distributor	Universal Home Video
Layers	Single side, Single layer
Edition Release Date	Feb 23, 1999
Regions	1