The River (1984)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 123 min | 5,54 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 123 min | 5,54 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Rydell
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson, Scott Glenn, Shane Bailey, Billy Green Bush, James Tolkan
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.
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Audio commentary by film historians Daniel Kremer and Nat Segalof
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