SummaryRafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.
Directed By:Curtis Hanson
Written By:Denis O'Neill
The River Wild
Metascore
Generally Favorable
63
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
63
66% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
28% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
6% Negative
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100
The River Wild may be the season's most exhilarating family entertainment. [30 Sep 1994, p.C1]
75
The River Wild is an exhilarating thriller, and Streep is memorable as a former whitewater river guide who has to summon up all of her old skills to save her life and the lives of her husband (David Straithairn) and son (Joseph Mazzello). [30 Sep 1994, p.3G]
75
The thrills and spills are often fun, despite their predictability. Watching this movie doesn't seem so much like white-water rafting as it does like taking a theme-park thrill ride that you've already taken a few dozen times. [30 Sep 1994, p.25]
70
In spite of the fact that everything turns out exactly as you think it will, director Curtis (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle) Hanson's movie, written by Denis O'Neill, is a tense, satisfying entertainment. [30 Sep 1994, p.69]
60
[Hanson] does another deft job of conveying a heroine's secret anxieties, at least during the first half of his story.
50
It's her first action flick, and Meryl Streep ends up with a watered-down script: the metaphoric journey is without resonance and the actual journey is without thrills. The River Wild is awfully tame. [30 Sep 1994]
25
The River Wild is simply a procession of banal, dull situations that add up to nothing. [30 Sep 1994, p.G4]
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
67% Positive
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27% Mixed
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7% Negative
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Jan 9, 2024
5
Une descente dans les rapides et des vilains à l’affût… mais non ce n’est pas ‘Délivrance’, c’est plutôt Meryl Streep dans le rôle de la milf super-active, le seul personnage crédible du film bien que déjà sensiblement exagéré, ma foi… Mais à côté des autres, difficile de se plaindre : Meryl ne rame pas malgré ses rames. Le film reste divertissant, ne soyons pas vache, très correctement mis en scène mais entre le mari gratte-papier qui se transforme d’un coup en McGuyver, le **** insupportablement con et le putain de clébard, il y a de quoi s’énerver un brin quand même dans ce thriller très convenu, finalement.
Production Company:
- Universal Pictures
- Turman-Foster Company
- David Foster Productions
Release Date:Sep 30, 1994
Duration:1 h 51 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:The vacation is over
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Actor Awards
• 1 Nomination
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
• 1 Nomination
