Gail (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 criminal... s 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.
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River Wild
Stunning scenery and a well presented if not very original story line. What sets River wild apart from other similar thrillers is the interaction between a very convincing Meryl Streep and one of hollywoods best bad guys, Kevin Bacon. Gail (streep), an expert at white water rafting, takes her husband & son on a trip down the river. On the way they meet two men who turn this family trip into a nightmare. This is not a film where you will sympathise with the baddies, long before the end you will want Wade (Bacon) to get his come uppance.
Streep is renowned for her mastery of funny foreign accents and delicate shadings of emotional turmoil. Well, here she kicks ass. She's an all-out action heroine and she's damn good. When her marriage starts failing, she takes her husband and son on a rafting trip down a river where she used to be a guide. However, psycho bank robbers hijack their raft and force Streep to take them down murderous rapids. Streep nearly died in one of the stunts, but she's a magnificent heroine and even Bacon as a smirking bad guy can't steal a scene from her.
River Wild, The
"...A pulse-pounding thrill ride....Streep is strong, sassy and looser than she has ever been onscreen..."
River Wild, The
Predictable action drama, made with some skill but too obvious in its plotting to create much suspense.
River Wild, The
"...[Bacon] makes a fine counterpoint to [Streep]..." - Recommended
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