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Single Parents 🤝 The River Wild

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HAPPY 65TH BIRTHDAY, KEVIN BACON!!!

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David Strathairn Appreciation: 

David “Feeling So Attacked Right Now” Strathairn in the 90′s

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WATCHLIST 2023: The River Wild

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The River Wild Review

If you can forgive it for using the same name as the 1994 Meryl Streep/Kevin Bacon thriller...The River Wild offers a fun, fast-paced and suspenseful ride of its own.

Streaming now on Netflix

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River Wild: A Feral Thriller

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Storyline via Wikipedia; Estranged brother and sister Gray and Joey, embark on a whitewater rafting trip amongst tourists with their childhood friend named Trevor. Along the river, the events quickly turn from exciting to terrifying, as the group finds themselves trapped alongside a killer who is intent to sabotage the trip while keeping secrets from the…

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There are so many actors that I don’t see all that often but every time I do, I have a fun moment where I think something to myself like: “Oh hey, it’s you David Strathairn. Look at you, showin’ up in stuff.”

(It’s an episode of House, in this case [s6e17: Lockdown], but on a related note, if you haven’t seen The River Wild in a while [or at all, cos most of y’all are youngins] it’s worth checking out. Meryl Streep and DS are going on a family white water rafting trip with the kid from Jurassic Park, but they get hijacked by Kevin Bacon and John C Reilly who are like, bank robbers escaping on the river or something? It’s ‘90s as fuck, but in a fun way.)

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The River Wild (1994)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

In another universe, The River Wild is a good film. We’re not talking about a dimension in which the U.S.S.R. landed on the moon first or anything like that. On this parallel earth, the only other significant difference is that you got up a minute later than you did on a random day in 1994. This movie does a few tiny things not quite right enough times to add up to an unpleasant experience.

Frustrated by her husband once again prioritizing work over his son, Gail (Meryl Streep) decides to take Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) and their dog rafting down the Salmon River without him. At the last second, Tom (David Strathairn) arrives and jumps aboard but the damage is done. While paddling, they encounter a trio of fellow adventurers: Wade (Kevin Bacon), Terry (John C. Reilly) and Frank (William Lucking). Gail and Roarke take an immediate liking to them. Tom isn’t so sure they are who they claim, which adds tension to an already tense situation.

It’s a great-looking movie with many loving shots of the wilderness. The cinematography is doubly impressive when we consider the numerous rafting-related stunts. It can’t have been easy to shoot everyone rowing for their lives but you never see anything - not even any stunt doubles or trick shots - that pulls you out of the experience. Helping are the performances from everyone involved. The actors are all great. Not a complete surprise considering the cast includes Meryl Streep, John C. Reilly and Kevin Bacon, but it's worth mentioning nonetheless.

The writing by Denis O’Neill is the problem. Even then, your usual issues are not present. The characters are developed enough to feel real. The improbable encounters and impossible actions are at a minimum. The trouble is that when you get down to it, this entire movie is familiar. Aside from the rafting thing, it does nothing new, which makes it so predictable you get frustrated.

This is the kind of film with no extravagances, and I mean that in a bad way. When you hear a news report about a big robbery on the radio, you know it’s relevant to the plot and that the strangers are involved. When Tom shows up at the last second, you know he, Gail and Roarke will fight about his absence for the entire film… until the end when he redeems himself by saving the day and thwarting the villains. When an enraged Gail says to Wade "I will kill you", you know the movie can’t end until she has some kind of weapon in her hand and the tables have turned in her favor. Any kind of twist would’ve made things interesting. If Tom hated his family and wanted to manipulate the thieves into executing his wife and son but not him, if Gail was seduced by Wade and believed in her heart that Roarke would be better off with a new father, if the bad guys weren’t so easy to figure out because they were all bad on the same level or if ANYTHING was different from the mold, this would be a better film.

Calling The River Wild "bad" doesn’t feel right. A better adjective would be "basic". If you want to make a movie like this one, you take this script, you do a find-replace for the names and then start tweaking details. This is where you begin, not where you end. The River Wild would be better if it were worse. As is, you can walk away from it for 15 minutes at a time and still know what's happening inside and out. (Full-screen version on VHS, June 20, 2021)

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Oscar Wilde, once said, “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

River Song, later tells the Doctor, “Oh, it’s my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on a spaceship.”

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Sneaky Dragon Episode 619

Episode 619 - This week, Dave and Ian talk questionable superpowers, musical trail offs, flashblechhhs, Lynchian elusiveness, supershows, rejuvenated ghosts, motion capture theatre, log huggers, jazz giants, nerdstalgia, killer cults, and hot dinosaurs.

Hola, Sneakers! It’s Episode 619 of the poplar cult podcast Sneaky Dragon! This week Ian and David talk: first person; comfortable silence; oblivious; questionable superpowers; musical trail off; flashblechhh; anti-matter of taste; stop the insanity; Lynchian elusiveness; peak frustrations; deep dives; it’s called show biz; endless stories; rejuvenated ghosts; Puff and other stuff; trivial…

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The River Wild (2023)

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David Strathairn Appreciation: 

Tom Hartman in The River Wild (1994) 

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Well. The remake of The River Wild was… serviceable. Completely different story from the original, beyond “evil guy wants to get to Canada and kidnaps whitewater rafters to do it”.

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