Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

The River (1984)

He might be able to hold back the river. But could he hold back the greed of man?

★ 6.4/10 December 1, 1984 122 min

Drama

Director: Mark Rydell  ·  Writers: Robert Dillon, Julian Barry

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

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Director

Mark Rydell

Cast

Mel Gibson Tom Garvey Sissy Spacek Mae Garvey Scott Glenn Joe Wade Billy Green Bush Harve Stanley Shane Bailey Lewis Garvey Becky Jo Lynch Beth Garvey Don Hood Senator Neiswinder James Tolkan Howard Simpson Bob W. Douglas Hal Richardson Andy Stahl Dave Birkin Lisa Sloan Judy Birkin Larry D. Ferrell Rod Tessley