Product Information
A former white water rafting guide takes her troubled son on a rafting trip with her workaholic husband. Their journey turns treacherous when they are joined by mysterious strangers.Product Identifiers
ProducerDavid Foster
EAN3259190304192
eBay Product ID (ePID)3942381
Product Key Features
ActorMeryl Streep, David Strathairn, Joseph Mazzello, Kevin Bacon, John C. Reilly
Film/TV TitleThe River Wild
DirectorCurtis Hanson
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageDanish\Dutch\English\Finnish\Norwegian\Portuguese\Swedish
Run Time106 Mins
Aspect Ratio2.35 Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2002
FeaturesProduction Notes\Filmographies, Widescreen, With Subtitles
GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate12A/12
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ReviewsPremiere - "...[Bacon] makes a fine counterpoint to [Streep]..." - Recommended, Entertainment Weekly - "...Awe-inspiring white water thrills..." -- Rating: B, New York Times - ...[Hanson] has the makings of a lean, mean thriller....[Streep] captures both Gail's terror and her exhilaration..., Rolling Stone - ...A pulse-pounding thrill ride....Streep is strong, sassy and looser than she has ever been onscreen...
Additional InformationGail (Meryl Streep), a former river guide, plans a white-water rafting trip to celebrate her son Roarke's (Joseph Mazzello) birthday and patch up her troubled marriage to her workaholic husband Tom (David Strathairn). As the family begins their river adventure, they meet Wade (Kevin Bacon), a novice rafter with a magnetic personality. When the family finds Wade and his friend Terry (John C. Reilly) stranded and abandoned by their guide, Gail and Tom decide to help them navigate the rapids. However, family fun turns to terror when Wade and Terry show their true colors--they're really criminals trying to evade the police following a major heist. To make matters worse, their escape route requires that they run the Gauntlet, deadly rapids where three rivers converge in violently tumultuous waters. This taut thriller from director Curtis Hanson (BAD INFLUENCE, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) features Streep in her first role as an action-adventure heroine, while Bacon is truly menacing as the psychotic Wade, a desperate criminal in over his head.
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French\Spanish\Italian\Polish\Czech\Hungarian
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\Dolby Digital Surround
Format DescriptionDVD 9
Movie/TV TitleThe River Wild
EditorDavid Brenner