Advantages: You Get To See Mel Gibson Disadvantages: Not Action Packed Like Some Of His Other Films
...After watching this film on the television on Saturday prompted me to write this review. I do own the film and also every one of his others.
If you have seen his other films then this is a little different, not his usual mad or fighting self, but much more tame on that scene.
This is one thing that I like about this film, it comes under the heading of Drama, and really is a film that you can sit down on a sunday afternoon with the family and watch. ... ...a delightful change.
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The Story
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Set in the Midwest Usa, tells the story of Tom Garvey (Mel Gibson), Mae Garvey (Sissy Spacek) and there two children.
The story tells of the struggles and strifes of a young farming family.
They have a bad harvest, a river which overflows and a businessman played by Scott Glen who tries to bring in some sort of modernisation in by building a dam that will only make the flooding a lot worse.
Tom is a very ...
chattell 08.08.2005
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