At the wild river

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Movie
German title At the wild river
Original title The River Wild
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Curtis Hanson
script Denis O'Neill
production David Foster ,
Lawrence Turman
music Jerry Goldsmith
camera Robert Elswit
cut David Brenner ,
Joe Hutshing
occupation

On the Wild River is an American thriller directed by Curtis Hanson from 1994.

action

Athletic Gail Hartman lives with her family of four in Boston , Massachusetts . For the birthday of her son Roarke, she is planning a multi-day rafting trip on a mountain river in her old home Idaho . As in previous years, Gail's husband, the architect Tom, cancels his trip at short notice for professional reasons, whereupon Gail and the children react disappointed and they finally travel alone to the Salmon River. Accompanied by her parents and daughter Willa, Gail prepares a boat for the tour together with Roarke and her dog Maggy. While collecting the badges required for the river trip, Roarke meets a young man named Wade, who apparently also wants to go down the river with his friends Frank and Terry.

Roarke develops a friendly relationship with Wade and tells him that his mother Gail used to be a guide on this river and is very familiar with it. After the first boat has left with Wade, Frank and Terry, Tom appears to start the journey with Gail, Roarke and Maggy. After a day or so, the Hartman family reunites with Wade and Terry, who claim that their guide, Frank, has let them down, so they ask Gail to lead them down the river. Wade and Terry drive with the family from now on.

Gail and Tom find Terry and Wade's behavior increasingly strange and try to drive on without them during a stopover. When Terry notices this, Wade draws his gun and threatens to shoot Tom. He says he needs Gail to go down the river and Roarke to keep them under control, while Tom and the dog are unimportant. To underline this, he tries to shoot the bitch, but this thwarts her by escaping. Wade now destroys the second boat and they continue their journey together in one boat. Gail suspects the original three were responsible for a raid on a nearby cattle auction she heard about on the radio. It turns out that they were using the boat tour as an escape route and murdered Frank, their guide, along the way. Instead of ending the tour at Brydal Creek as planned, Wade forces the group to continue into Hell's Gorge. In this section of the river, rafting is actually prohibited because of the extremely dangerous rapids.

At night Tom can use Roarke's pocket knife to loosen his bonds. He tries to steal the revolver from Terry , but is caught and followed from Wade into the river. Tom crosses it and climbs up a rock wall on the opposite side, but Wade spots him with the lamp and shoots him. Since Tom falls down, Wade assumes that he shot him. Tom still managed to escape from the water unharmed to the rocks that night. The next day, Wade shoots ranger Johnny, whom Gail knows from before and who followed the group into Hell's Gorge. Meanwhile, Tom is building a structure down the river from the remains of an old cable car that is supposed to capsize the boat.

After Gail and the others cross Hell's Gorge, Tom manages to capsize the boat, causing Wade and Terry to fall out of the boat. Gail breaks Terry's arm with an oar. While Tom is fighting Wade, Gail gets to the revolver and wants to fire a shot in the air to keep the others at bay and call for help. When no shot goes off, Wade rushes with the knife at Gail, who then shoots him with the last bullet in the revolver's drum. The police, who arrive later, fish Wade's body out of the river and arrest Terry. Gail, Tom, Roarke and Maggy finally sit in peace by the river. The marital problems that had emerged between Gail and Tom seem to have receded into the background in the face of the hardships.

background

The thriller cost $ 45 million to produce and grossed $ 94 million worldwide. The action takes place on the Salmon River in Idaho; However, it was shot on the Kootenai River in Montana as well as on the upper reaches of the Rogue River in Oregon and on the middle Flathead River in Montana.

Meryl Streep performed most of the stunts himself. When director Curtis Hanson asked her to shoot another boat scene after a hard day's shooting, Streep didn't want to, but Hanson insisted. She promptly fell into the water at the scene and almost drowned. When she got out of the water, trembling, she went to Hanson and threatened to get out if Hanson didn't listen to her in the future.

Reviews

"A dramatic adventure film in which Meryl Streep believably plays the strong female character who can cope with all dangers", stated the lexicon of international films . “Nevertheless, he is hopelessly tangled up in genre clichés and the superficial feminist cloak of an ultimately conventional story.” Roger Ebert criticized in the Chicago Sun-Times that the ideas, characters and situations from the other films were “reused”.

Awards

Meryl Streep was nominated for Best Actress in a Drama and Kevin Bacon for Best Supporting Actor for the Golden Globe Award . Meryl Streep also received a nomination for Best Actress for the Screen Actors Guild Award .

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the wild river in the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ On the wild river. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Roger Ebert: The River Wild . Chicago Sun-Times. September 30, 1994. Retrieved March 13, 2009.