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The River is a 1984 American drama film directed by Mark Rydell, written by Robert Dillon and Julian Barry, and starring Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson, and Scott Glenn.The film tells the story of a struggling farm family in a Tennessee river valley trying to keep its farm from going under in the face of bank foreclosures and floods.
Sissy Spacek in 2011. Spacek starred with Jack Lemmon in Costa-Gavras's 1982 political thriller Missing (based on the book The Execution of Charles Horman). She appeared with Mel Gibson in the rural drama The River (1984) and she starred alongside Diane Keaton and Jessica Lange in the grimly humorous comedy film Crimes Of The Heart (1986). [9]
Mel Gibson is an American actor, director, and producer, who made his acting debut on the Australian television drama series The Sullivans (1976–1983). [1] While a student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, he was given an uncredited role in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden [citation needed] and subsequently appeared as a leading actor in the micro budget surf drama ...
The rest of the cast includes Robert Pattinson, Lakeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek, and Nick Nolte, ... a decade ago was set to star Shia Labeouf and Mel Gibson. The film is about a man (Powell) who ...
Gibson's most recent theatrical performance, opposite Sissy Spacek, was the 1993 production of Love Letters by A. R. Gurney, in Telluride, Colorado. [22] While a student at NIDA, Gibson made his film debut in the 1977 film Summer City, for which he was paid $400. [23] Gibson then played the title character in the film Mad Max (1979). He was ...
Mel Gibson has said he wants to "fix" the problem of stars leaving Hollywood. "A lot of people have left, and I don't blame them," Gibson said in a recent interview.
Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek to appear at Film Festival. Fellow Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek also will appear as a special guest at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 27, in the Plaza Theatre.
He was going to make a film based on the play Nuts but instead did The River (1984), with Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek. [17] It was not a commercial success. Neither was Rydell's next film, For the Boys (1991), with Caan and Midler. Rydell made the television movie McBride and Groom (1993) and the feature Intersection (1994).