Coordinates | 38°37′38″N90°11′52″N |
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name | The River Wild |
director | Curtis Hanson |
producer | David FosterLawrence Turman |
writer | Denis O'Neill |
starring | Meryl StreepKevin BaconDavid StrathairnJohn C. ReillyJoseph Mazzello | |
music | Jerry GoldsmithMaurice Jarre (rejected theme) |
cinematography | Robert Elswit |
editing | David BrennerJoe Hutshing |
distributor | Universal Studios |
released | |
runtime | 108 minutes |
country | |
language | EnglishAmerican Sign Language |
budget | $45 million |
gross | $94,216,343 }} |
After a day's rafting, the family make camp for the night, but Tom continues to work on his laptop computer rather than entering fully into the experience. This agitates Roarke, who thinks that his father doesn't really seem to realise he's away from Boston. The family is joined by Wade and Terry who help to celebrate Roarke's birthday the same night. Gail slowly becomes friendly with Wade. However, after a while Wade begins acting suspiciously and Gail decides it would be best to part ways. During the morning's rafting, Wade reveals to Roarke that they have a gun with them. As they raft down the river the parents discuss an exit strategy that will allow them to leave the two men behind, and at lunch they attempt to leave on their raft and get away before Wade and Terry realize what is going on.
Their attempt fails and Wade pulls the gun on them and assaults Tom. Gail then realizes that an armed robbery she had heard about was actually carried out by Wade and Terry, and their rafting trip is actually a way for them to get away. The family is forced to raft at gunpoint down the rest of the river before they all set up camp for the night. Meanwhile, a park ranger named Johnny (Benjamin Bratt), who knows Gail, is white water canoeing down the river. He bumps into the group; but Wade holds the gun to Gail's back and pretends that everything is okay. Later, he appears again but this time Wade shoots him, grabs him by his shirt, and throws him into the rapids.
It's revealed that Wade and Terry, in order to aid their escape, want to go on down the river to a set of rapids where in recent years one person was killed and another was left paralyzed. Consequently, rafting is no longer allowed. Wade and Terry force Gail to raft down through the rapids despite her repeated attempts to flip the raft and so force Wade and Terry out of the river.
During the night Tom attempts to steal the gun off the sleeping Terry but is heard and has to run into the bushes and to the river. Wade gives chase and believes he has shot him when he hears a loud splash into the water.
Tom reappears and manages to flip the raft. Gail and Roarke, who have been tied to the raft by Wade, remain in the raft and to get hold of the gun, which had fallen into the water, whilst Tom is fighting Terry. The struggle ends when Gail throws the bag of money into the water and shoots Wade whose dead body floats off down river. The film ends with the family and Terry (who has been arrested) being helicoptered out.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times also highlighted the best elements of the film as the cinematography, which he described as "great looking" and the performances by Bacon and Streep, who he described as "putting a lot humor and intelligence into her character". However, Ebert identified serious flaws in the strength of the plot, remarking that, "movies like this are so predictable in their overall stories that they win or lose with their details...The River Wild was constructed from so many ideas, characters and situations recycled from other movies that all the way down the river I kept thinking: Been there". He emphasised the lack of credibility in the storyline and sheer impossibility of some scenes, particularly involving David Strathairn as he outruns the pace of the river and his scenes with the cliff and his Swiss Army knife.
Streep received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nomination for best actress for her portrayal of a former river guide turned wife and mother. Bacon received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Featured Film. Neither of them won the Golden Globe, with the awards going to Jessica Lange in Blue Sky and Martin Landau in Ed Wood respectively.
Category:1994 films Category:American Sign Language films Category:American thriller films Category:English-language films Category:Films shot in Montana Category:Films shot in Oregon Category:1990s thriller films Category:Films directed by Curtis Hanson Category:Films shot anamorphically Category:Rafting films
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