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The River Wild (1994)

★ 6.5 · 951 ratings on TMDB

The vacation is over.

The River Wild poster★ 6.5

Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.

DirectorCurtis Hanson
CastBenjamin Bratt, David Strathairn, Elizabeth Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Joseph Mazzello, Kevin Bacon
GenresAdventure, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

The River Wild keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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