The River Wild (DVD)

...plot spoilers even worse than the ones the scriptwriters put in!! ************************************************ Is it a beached whale? Is it a swaddled Inuit Eskimo? No, it’s ShoppingGirl, wrapped in cosy pyjamas and staying up long past her bedtime to watch the end of a cheesy thriller the very premise of which would have most sensible folks guffawing into their TV guides. Meryl Streep as action heroine? Sounds like a sketch from French and ...
...features white water, goodies, baddies, the great outdoors and a crazy man who wants to knife everybody, you just can’t help yourself from doing a mental ‘plinky plink’ of duelling banjos, as shades of Deliverance come to mind. But this film is about as much like Deliverance as Jack Nicholson is like Brian from Big Brother. But is that such a bad thing? It’s all very wholesome. Streep plays Gail, mother to the ten-year old Roarke, whose name rhymes ...

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The River Wild is a 1994 thriller directed by Curtis Hanson. His list of films is limited however they are of a good standard, he?s directed 8 Mile, In Her Shoes, Lucky You & L.A Confidential. He?s better known for directing low budget thrillers. The River Wild was released 30th September 1994 in the US & 24th February 1995 in the UK. It had a budget of $45,000,000. It runs for approximately 108 minutes & has a 12 rating. This stars two massive ...
...Bacon. Meryl Streep, the more well-known of the two actors has had a career spanning 30 years. She holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations with 15 nominations. Her first was in 1979 for The Deer Hunter. 12 for Best Actress & 3 for Best Supporting Actress. She also holds the record for the actress with the most Golden Globes, she currently has 6. She?s also the most nominated actress for Golden Globes with 23 nominations. Kevin Bacon, ...

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...a pair of criminals on the run. Having discovered this, they find themselves unable to escape and are forced to help the bad guys down the river. Frankly, this is a pretty awful film - let's be honest, what do you expect with a movie based around a rafting trip? The plot (or what there is of one) is predictable and the characters can only be described as one-dimensional: we get to know the pet dog as well as the human stars. Even the scenes in the ...

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Review of The River Wild (DVD)