Someone
I work with and I were talking about older films and he was
shocked...shocked that I had not seen The River Wild. Look. I'm late
when it comes to these type of films. I grew up on a steady diet of
garbage so it takes me a while to get around to classics and stuff. I
still haven't seen Glory which means I'm no longer allowed in South
Central. This is the story of an annoying family that I want to drown
being taken hostage by the worlds worse robbers.
Meryl
Streep plays Gail. She is a teacher raising her two kids pretty much
alone because her husband Tom played by David Strathairn is working
all the time. And he's just naturally dickish. So the family minus
the father decide to go on a camping and river rafting trip. Tom
shows up and no one is really happy about it because in movies
fathers ruin everything. So while rafting they keep coming across
these guys in another raft. Eventually one comes up missing and the
family helps out the last two Wade played by Kevin Bacon and Terry
played by John C. Reilly. They look like criminals so of course the
son loves them more than the father.
They end up capturing the family and seemingly killing the father and
chasing the dog away. Oh, the dog! Why would you bring the fucking
dog with you rafting?! They left the daughter with the deaf
grandparents. Oh, I mention the deaf part because plot device. This
was made in 1994 during that time where these long ass family in
danger mom has to save the day films were popular. I didn't really
like this and wanted everyone to drown at the end. And the dog Maggie
had a dick sometimes.
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