The River Wild

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Summary: THE WATER IS WIDE
Review: Meryl Streep is certainly an amazing performer. Few actresses can enliven such a formulaic movie as "The River Wild." And yet, Streep's portrayal of Gail is as always brilliant. Meryl uses her exquisite face, and exhibits her continued range of performances in her first (and probably only) "action" role. She is truly the best of our generation's many fine actresses. Kevin Bacon is effectively chilling; Joseph Massello shows a good range for such a young actor; David Straitharn is at first too wooden, but as his character grows, so does his performance; John C. Reilly, as always, is efficiently supportive.
The vistas are beautiful and the final rafting scenes breathtaking. A good if not great film.

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Summary: THE WATER IS WIDE
Review: Meryl Streep is certainly an amazing performer. Few actresses can enliven such a formulaic movie as "The River Wild." And yet, Streep's portrayal of Gail is as always brilliant. Meryl uses her exquisite face, and exhibits her continued range of performances in her first (and probably only) "action" role. She is truly the best of our generation's many fine actresses. Kevin Bacon is effectively chilling; Joseph Massello shows a good range for such a young actor; David Straitharn is at first too wooden, but as his character grows, so does his performance; John C. Reilly, as always, is efficiently supportive.
The vistas are beautiful and the final rafting scenes breathtaking. A good if not great film.

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Summary: That's Entertainment!
Review: Not perfect, but really entertaining! Streep is excellent and Bacon is very good.

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Summary: Kevin Bacon's best performance
Review: One of the least talked about films of the 1990's is also one of the best. This is an often overlooked gem featuring perhaps the best performance to date from Kevin Bacon. The movie itself is a nice change of pace for an action movie. It keeps you hooked from the beginning to the very end and it seems you learn something new about the characters in every scene. Bacon plays the evil villian to perfection and for the first time in along time, he seems motivated. If you are a fan of Kevin Bacon, this is a MUST SEE!

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Summary: Ladies can be Women, too.
Review: Saw the movie in the theater, which is the best way to appreciate the river scenes. Had the opportunity to see "white water" up close. Wow! Loved the storyline;loved Meryl's role as the strong yet gentle woman who can think for herself. Loved the music, which I believe has Celtic roots. Would like to purchase the soundtrack.

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Summary: Psychological Thrill Ride
Review: The adrenaline rush that comes from this movie really does not compare to many other adventure movies, in the sense that Curtis Hanson Keys into the human instinct of survival. Building upon themes found in the movie Deliverance, Hanson slowly strips away the elaborate city lives of the individual characters and sets them foth as animals in a stunningly beautiful landscape. Such a wonderful psychological experiment alone would be worth the dvd, but the scenery, and cinemetography are spectacular. What makes this movie, though, a classic, above all is the CHARACTERIZATION. The reality of this movie is brought to us by the characters. A viewer may easilly get the feeling that them or a neighbor of theirs could have easilly been put in this story and that makes you feel that much more for the characters. The fears, the paranioa, the abolute lunge for survival race not only on the screen but through your very own blood. This movie is an experience that every active mind should have the pleaure of ingulging in, and I hope that you are able to experience this classic on DVD, because it is truly a masterful creation.

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Summary: a reviewer from india
Review: the river wild is a very good movie, the actors in the movie are of right choice, the whole movie is about a family who get stuck with two guys when they go for a river ride on their sons birthday.
joseph mazzello who is my favorite actor doesn't play a much important role in this movie like jurassic park and simon birch, the actors in the movie have done their best with thier great expressions.
i have given four stars as the story of this movie is very predictable. overall this movie is worth for watching once.
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Summary: One Wild Ride
Review: There's no denying that Meryl Streep is one of her generation's finest actresses (if not the best of all time). So what's she doing an action movie? It's not quite that simple. Directed by L.A. Confidential's Curtis Hanson, River Wild is a tuant and suspenseful thriller that does for rafting...(I'll spare you the cliche). The film's central antagonist is played to melevolent perfection by Kevin Bacon as a theif who when all else fails hijacks a riverraft, it's guide and her family. After the characters are adequently devolped Hanson leads us right into the action, playing to our fears of nature and eachother. Filling the supporting role of Bacon's dim acompliss is John C. Reilly (who made his biggest impression on me as Chest Rockwell in Boogie Nights). Also watch for Ben Bratt as Indian Johnny (a nickname given to his character in a particularly humorous and equally threatening scene with Bacon).

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Summary: an exellent and edge of your seat thriller
Review: This film was one of the best i have seen it is about a family and they go for vacation river rafting until two men come and hold them hostage and the hero mom played by Meryl Streep comes and saves the day. I think Kevin Bacon and Meryl Streep are exellent and this movie is a great and entertaning film for young adults. I would go and see it. I would rate it a 10!!!!

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Summary: So Suspence Filled!
Review: This is a great movie which has one of my favorite actors in it. Joseph Mazzello plays Roarke, the son of Gail(Meryl Streep) who is a white water river rafting guide. They take a ride down a river with Roarke's father, Tom, played by David Strathairn. They have a fun time at the start of the trip, but when two fellows (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly) ask for help riding down the river, things start to become odd.

This is an excellent movie with great acting by Joseph Mazzello, Meryl Streep, and Kevin Bacon. I highly recommend it. The movie keeps you on the edge of your seat and you just beg that the family will make it out okay. I give it 5 stars.

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