River, The

Drama

Scott Glenn	Joe Wade
Sissy Spacek	Mae Garvey
Mel Gibson	Tom Garvey
Shane Bailey	Lewis Garvey
Becky Jo Lynch	Beth Garvey
Don Hood	Senator Neiswinder
Billy Green Bush	Harve Stanley
James Tolkan	Howard Simpson
Bob W. Douglas	Hal Richardson
Andy Stahl	Dave Birkin

Director	Mark Rydell
Producer	Edward Lewis; Robert Cortes
Writer	Robert Dillon; Julian Barry

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This emotionally charged film celebrates the triumph of a young rural couple as they face nature's greatest ravages, the threat of poverty and a wrenching separation. Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson and Scott Glenn star in this moving tribute to love, faith, determination and the vanishing America of the independent farm family.

Tom and Mae Garvey are struggling to keep their homestead safe from the local power authority who wants to flood their land. When Mae's former beau, John Wade, turns out to be in charge of the plan to acquire the property, tensions run high, climaxing in a devastating confrontation on the flooded river banks.