The River

Overview

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.

Directed by Mark Rydell

Top cast

Mel Gibson

Tom Garvey

Sissy Spacek

Mae Garvey

Scott Glenn

Joe Wade

Billy Green Bush

Harve Stanley

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Shane Bailey

Lewis Garvey

B

Becky Jo Lynch

Beth Garvey

Don Hood

Senator Neiswinder

James Tolkan

Howard Simpson

B

Bob W. Douglas

Hal Richardson

Andy Stahl

Dave Birkin

L

Lisa Sloan

Judy Birkin

L

Larry D. Ferrell

Rod Tessley

S

Susie Toomey

Sally Tessley

K

Kelly Toomey

Lisa Tessley

Frank Hoyt Taylor

Zemke

Amy Rydell

Betty Gaumer

Samuel Scott Osborne

Billy Gaumer

Charles Robinson

Truck

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Ivan Green

Smoot

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Desmond Couch

Wilderfoot

Details