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Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon and David Strathaihn in...

The River Wild

( Catalog Number 43275 )
(THX) (2.35:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

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The River Wild
1994 - 112 min. - Color
Genre: Thriller
Rated PG-13
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
In THE RIVER WILD, Gail (Meryl Streep), a former river guide, plans a white-water rafting trip to celebrate her son Roarke's (Joseph Mazzello) birthday and patch up her troubled marriage to her workaholic husband, Tom (David Strathairn). As the family begins their river adventure, they meet Wade (Kevin Bacon), a novice rafter with a magnetic personality. When the family finds Wade and his friend, Terry (John C. Reilly), stranded and abandoned by their guide, Gail and Tom decide to help them navigate the rapids. However, family fun turns to terror when Wade and Terry show their true colors--they're really criminals trying to evade the police following a major heist. To make matters worse, their escape route requires that they run the Gauntlet, deadly rapids where three rivers converge in violently tumultuous waters. This taut thriller from director Curtis Hanson (BAD INFLUENCE, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) features Streep in her first role as an action-adventure heroine, while Bacon is truly menacing as the psychotic Wade, a desperate criminal in over his head.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
In a change-of-pace role designed to prove that she could carry high-concept genre films as well as character-driven dramas, Meryl Streep headlined this fast-paced adventure as Gail, a whitewater rafting guide. For a vacation, Gail is accompanying her son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) and workaholic husband Tom (David Strathairn) on a river trip. Gail and Tom are experiencing marital troubles and contemplating divorce, but their problems take a back seat when they encounter some menacing rafters led by Wade (Kevin Bacon). After Tom saves Wade from drowning, they discover that the men are murderous fugitives using the river as an escape route. Kidnapped by the killers, Gail's forced to leave her husband stranded on shore and guide the villains through the "Gauntlet," a raging confluence of rivers that few rafters ever survive. Meanwhile, Tom proves to be wilier than anyone suspected, following the raft on foot and plotting his family's rescue. Following a quartet of popular B-grade thrillers, director Curtis Hanson attempted to break partially out of the genre with The River Wild, which, despite the presence of a psycho killer, played as more a stunt-filled action movie than a murder mystery. Karl Williams

While the "vacationing family in peril" is not a new construct, director Curtis Hanson, in one of his pre-L.A. Confidential genre films, brings a fresh and palpable fear to the scenario in The River Wild. Due to the believable performances led by Meryl Streep in a departure and the wolfish Kevin Bacon in his familiar sheep's clothing the film crackles with a sense of normalcy spinning out of control. In less skillful hands, the good deed of picking up stranded boaters along a rocky river would have been saturated with doom from minute one as well as the certainty that the heroes would emerge unscathed. Hanson paints the set-up more in shades of gray, leaving the menacing behavior more of a surprise (even when the audience knows it's coming), and the outcome of tense moments not nearly so easy to telegraph. As the emasculated father, David Strathairn hits just the right pitch of nervous desperation. One might criticize the film for borrowing too heavily from another rafting adventure gone awry, Deliverance including a noticeable parallel between the off-boat survival instincts of Strathairn and Deliverance's Jon Voight. But Hanson and Streep provide the credibility to elevate The River Wild beyond the level of mere knock-off. Derek Armstrong

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Cast for The River Wild

Meryl Streep - Gail
Kevin Bacon - Wade
David Strathairn - Tom
Joseph Mazzello - Roarke
John C. Reilly - Terry
Benjamin Bratt - Ranger Johnny
Thomas F. Duffy - Ranger
Diane Delano - Ranger
Nancy Klopper
William Lucking - Frank
Glenn Morshower - Policeman
Elizabeth Hoffman - Gail's Mother

Crew for The River Wild

Mark Mansbridge - Art Director
Marlene Stewart - Costume Designer
Bill Kenney - Production Designer
Tom Mack - First Assistant Director
Max Kleven - Stunts
James Kail - Makeup
Denis O'neill - Screenwriter / Co-producer
Carol Fenelon - Musical Direction/Supervision
Lawrence Turman - Producer
Kirk A. Francis - Sound/Sound Designer
Ivan Sharrock - Sound/Sound Designer
Nancy Klopper - Casting
David Foster - Producer
Ron Chapman - Cinematographer
Robert Elswit - Cinematographer
Bruce A. Evans - Screenwriter
Ray Gideon - Screenwriter
David Brenner - Editor
Roy Arbogast - Special Effects
Joe Hutshing - Editor
Ilona Herzberg - Executive Producer
William Hiney - Set Designer
Rick T. Gentz - Set Designer
Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score)
Ray Hartwick - Executive Producer
Curtis Hanson - Director

Awards for The River Wild

Best Actress (Drama) (nom) Meryl Streep 1995 Golden Globe
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Kevin Bacon 1995 Golden Globe

Feature Details

Title: The River Wild
Feature Release Date: 1994
Genre: Thriller
Rating: PG-13
Color: Color
Runtime: 112 Minutes
Chapters: 44
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 20 Aug 1997
Catalog Number: 43275
UPC: 096894327569
Manufacturer: Kuraray
Publisher: MCA/Universal Home Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Certification: THX
Closed Caption: English
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 43275
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Rare DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket with a several splits and corner fold

Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon and David Strathaihn in...

The River Wild

( Catalog Number 43275 )
(THX) (2.35:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
LaserDisc

The River Wild
1994 - 112 min. - Color
Genre: Thriller
Rated PG-13
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
In THE RIVER WILD, Gail (Meryl Streep), a former river guide, plans a white-water rafting trip to celebrate her son Roarke's (Joseph Mazzello) birthday and patch up her troubled marriage to her workaholic husband, Tom (David Strathairn). As the family begins their river adventure, they meet Wade (Kevin Bacon), a novice rafter with a magnetic personality. When the family finds Wade and his friend, Terry (John C. Reilly), stranded and abandoned by their guide, Gail and Tom decide to help them navigate the rapids. However, family fun turns to terror when Wade and Terry show their true colors--they're really criminals trying to evade the police following a major heist. To make matters worse, their escape route requires that they run the Gauntlet, deadly rapids where three rivers converge in violently tumultuous waters. This taut thriller from director Curtis Hanson (BAD INFLUENCE, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) features Streep in her first role as an action-adventure heroine, while Bacon is truly menacing as the psychotic Wade, a desperate criminal in over his head.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
In a change-of-pace role designed to prove that she could carry high-concept genre films as well as character-driven dramas, Meryl Streep headlined this fast-paced adventure as Gail, a whitewater rafting guide. For a vacation, Gail is accompanying her son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) and workaholic husband Tom (David Strathairn) on a river trip. Gail and Tom are experiencing marital troubles and contemplating divorce, but their problems take a back seat when they encounter some menacing rafters led by Wade (Kevin Bacon). After Tom saves Wade from drowning, they discover that the men are murderous fugitives using the river as an escape route. Kidnapped by the killers, Gail's forced to leave her husband stranded on shore and guide the villains through the "Gauntlet," a raging confluence of rivers that few rafters ever survive. Meanwhile, Tom proves to be wilier than anyone suspected, following the raft on foot and plotting his family's rescue. Following a quartet of popular B-grade thrillers, director Curtis Hanson attempted to break partially out of the genre with The River Wild, which, despite the presence of a psycho killer, played as more a stunt-filled action movie than a murder mystery. Karl Williams

While the "vacationing family in peril" is not a new construct, director Curtis Hanson, in one of his pre-L.A. Confidential genre films, brings a fresh and palpable fear to the scenario in The River Wild. Due to the believable performances led by Meryl Streep in a departure and the wolfish Kevin Bacon in his familiar sheep's clothing the film crackles with a sense of normalcy spinning out of control. In less skillful hands, the good deed of picking up stranded boaters along a rocky river would have been saturated with doom from minute one as well as the certainty that the heroes would emerge unscathed. Hanson paints the set-up more in shades of gray, leaving the menacing behavior more of a surprise (even when the audience knows it's coming), and the outcome of tense moments not nearly so easy to telegraph. As the emasculated father, David Strathairn hits just the right pitch of nervous desperation. One might criticize the film for borrowing too heavily from another rafting adventure gone awry, Deliverance including a noticeable parallel between the off-boat survival instincts of Strathairn and Deliverance's Jon Voight. But Hanson and Streep provide the credibility to elevate The River Wild beyond the level of mere knock-off. Derek Armstrong

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Cast for The River Wild

Meryl Streep - Gail
Kevin Bacon - Wade
David Strathairn - Tom
Joseph Mazzello - Roarke
John C. Reilly - Terry
Benjamin Bratt - Ranger Johnny
Thomas F. Duffy - Ranger
Diane Delano - Ranger
Nancy Klopper
William Lucking - Frank
Glenn Morshower - Policeman
Elizabeth Hoffman - Gail's Mother

Crew for The River Wild

Mark Mansbridge - Art Director
Marlene Stewart - Costume Designer
Bill Kenney - Production Designer
Tom Mack - First Assistant Director
Max Kleven - Stunts
James Kail - Makeup
Denis O'neill - Screenwriter / Co-producer
Carol Fenelon - Musical Direction/Supervision
Lawrence Turman - Producer
Kirk A. Francis - Sound/Sound Designer
Ivan Sharrock - Sound/Sound Designer
Nancy Klopper - Casting
David Foster - Producer
Ron Chapman - Cinematographer
Robert Elswit - Cinematographer
Bruce A. Evans - Screenwriter
Ray Gideon - Screenwriter
David Brenner - Editor
Roy Arbogast - Special Effects
Joe Hutshing - Editor
Ilona Herzberg - Executive Producer
William Hiney - Set Designer
Rick T. Gentz - Set Designer
Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score)
Ray Hartwick - Executive Producer
Curtis Hanson - Director

Awards for The River Wild

Best Actress (Drama) (nom) Meryl Streep 1995 Golden Globe
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Kevin Bacon 1995 Golden Globe

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