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Sep 30, 1994 · "The River Wild" is one of the movies you want to play along with, you really do, but it gets so many details subtly wrong that finally you lose patience and turn on it. It's a replay of the "Deliverance" formula, in which city folks try their luck in nature, and find that the most dangerous predator is Man.
Sep 26, 1994 · By Todd McCarthy. The characters and the audience take a wild ride in “The River Wild,” a tense , sharply made thriller about a family held hostage during a river rafting vacation.
Oct 14, 1994 · Most of The River Wild moves at an annoyingly maladroit, stop-and-go tempo — it feels too much like a camping trip — and almost nothing that happens is very believable.
Synopsis. A Boston couple, Gail (Meryl Streep) and Tom (David Strathairn) are having marital problems. Gail, a rafting expert, decides to take their child Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) on a holiday rafting down the Salmon River in Idaho, along with their pet dog. At the last minute Tom joins them.
The River Wild is a 1994 American thriller film starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, and David Strathairn. It was directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Denis O'Neill. It follows a young family whose white-water rafting holiday is endangered when they are taken hostage by a pair of armed fugitives .
On paper, Hanson’s The River Wild (1994) is an old-fashioned adventure film shot on location at river rapids in Montana and Oregon.
A movie review by James Berardinelli. As thrillers go, The River Wild is a cut below a "white-knuckler," but it still has its share of spills and chills.
