1994 · adventure · thriller · drama
The River Wild
Directed by Curtis Hanson1h 51m1994
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.
Our read: The River Wild (1994) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded adventure · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- tender
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