MOVIE · 1984
The River
Drama124 min
Tom Garvey is a Tennessee farmer trying to hold onto his family’s land as floods ruin his crops and foreclosure closes in. Mel Gibson is Tom, taking scab work at a steel mill to bring in cash, while Sissy Spacek’s Mae stays with their children and fights to keep the farm running. The pressure grows when a local corporation and an ambitious developer move against the Garveys’ property, turning a bad season into a fight over whether the river will take their livelihood for good.
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