The River 1984 123movies

Watch: The River 1984 123movies, Full Movie Online – Tom and Mae Garvey are a hard working farming couple living with their two children on the east Tennessee farm owned by Tom’s family for generations. They and many of their neighbors have hit hard times of late. A downturn in the economy has led to dwindling land prices. But the biggest problem of late has been that their crop land has been prone to flooding as the property is adjacent to a river. Manipulating the powers that be including a local senator and the local bank, Joe Wade, who also grew up in the area and now runs the local milling company that sets the local grain prices, is working behind the scenes to buy up the properties along the river for a song as he wants to build a dam which would flood the Garvey’s and others riverfront properties. The dam would generate electricity, but more importantly for Joe it would provide irrigation opportunities for farm properties away from the river, such as his own. Tom already intensely dislikes Joe as he and Mae used to go together. Joe’s behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings coupled with the continuation of these and many other farming problems makes it increasingly difficult for the Garveys to hold onto their farm, Tom who seems determined at any cost to stay on the land of his ancestors..
Plot: Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to reposses their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.
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Ratings:

	6.3/10 Votes: 7,124
	24% | RottenTomatoes
	46/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 99 Popularity: 9.344 | TMDB

Reviews:

The Bad Guy Was Right All Along
Continuing my plan to watch every Mel Gibson movie in order, 8 come to his first American movie. 1984’s The River.

Plot In A Paragraph: Tom and Mae Garvey (Gibson and Sissy Spceck) struggle to keep their farm from the bank, floods and from local financer Joe Wade (Scott Glenn) who wants to buy up all the land, dam a local river which floods and generate some new jobs.

The river was Gibson’s first American movie, and he is fine, but is over shadowed by Spaceck and a strong supporting turn from Scott Glenn, who is effectively the movies villain, it is a funny movie as the “Bad Guy” is right all along and Gibson and Spaceck’s characters should have listened to him!! He was talking good common sense!! And that’s when you know it’s a weird move!! If you are rooting for who is essentially the bad guy.

It’s watchable, but that’s about it.

The River grossed $11 million at the domestic box office to end the year the 72nd highest grossing movie of 1984.

Farm-family drama has noble intentions but a fumbled script and direction…
Mel Gibson isn’t terribly convincing as a southern farmer and family man trying to hold onto his river-ravaged land; even when covered in soot and wearing overalls, everything about the young, wiry Gibson breathes prosperity. Corporate shady Scott Glenn (in a sleepwalking performance) wants Gibson and wife Sissy Spacek off their land in order to build a dam and flood the valley (it’ll mean more jobs), but Gibson refuses to sell out. Sub-plot with Mel taking factory work (after crossing a picket line) is presumably meant to give us a more complete portrait of the man, but it just makes the character seem hard-headed. Upon opening with a lovely series of nature shots courtesy cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, director Mark Rydell immediately loses his footing with a sequence of contrived family action set in a rainstorm (underlined by an awful John Williams score). It’s all downhill from there, with petulant, milky-skinned Gibson failing to match up with homespun Spacek, and two perky kids who keep playing to the camera. “The River” was released the same year as “Places in the Heart” and “Country”, and was easily the weakest we-won’t-lose-the-farm movie of the lot. Glossy, superficial and dull. *1/2 from ****

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 4 min (124 min)
Budget 18000000
Revenue 11500000
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama
Director Mark Rydell
Writer Robert Dillon, Julian Barry
Actors Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Shane Bailey
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 4 Oscars. 2 wins & 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,397 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 125T 5247, 400T 5294)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm