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  Movie Review - The River Wild
In The River Wild the Hartman family befriends the killers, believing them to be stranded tourists and in so doing become their victims.
Since the thugs cannot negotiate the river rapids by themselves, they coerce Gail, who was a champion white water rafter in her youth, to get them down the rapids.
The actual jump into the river was off of a special platform where a trainer waited with the dog and made sure his footing was good, then tossed his favorite toy into the water to encourage him to jump in, which he did.
www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=6672   (978 words)

  
 Wind River Movie
The Wind River tells the true story of Nick Wilson who lived among the Shoshone for a couple of years, and was one of the original rides of the pony Express.
Basically, this movie describes the adventures of a 12 year old pioneer boy who runs away from his family and the drudgery of work on a frontier farm.
The main strength of this movie is the sympathetic portrayal of the American Indian.
www.movie-pages.com /movie/wind-river/B00005OSJN   (613 words)

  
 Bridge on the River Kwai Review by David Hurlbert (5 Stars) | MatchFlick
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is a spectacular film and a sobering reminder of that generation who sacrificed much to provide a future of liberties and values that we should uphold and never take lightly.
Historical inaccuracies aside, this movie defines the term film epic on a grand scale from the original sets to the notable cast.
While this epic film is undoubtedly a great movie, it sanitizes the crimes the Japanese committed against the Allied POWs and Asian captives held during that time in the region.
www.matchflick.com /movie-review/2361-6199   (822 words)

  
 The River Movie: The River DVD is available from Bestprices.com
When the local river floods and nearly destroys the farms around it, hardship hits the area.
Director Mark Rydell's THE RIVER is a truly beautiful, subtly heartwrenching, and unique film in that it captures the seldom-seen pleasures of living and growing up in an endangered world--that of the family farm.
Much of THE RIVER was filmed on 440 acres of land purchased by Universal Studios by the Holston River in Tennessee.
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 ipedia.com: River Phoenix Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
River Phoenix, born River Jude Bottom in Madras, Oregon, USA, was one of the most promising movie actors of his generation.
River Phoenix (August 23 1970 - October 31 1993), born River Jude Bottom in Madras, Oregon, USA, was one of the most promising movie actors of his generation.
He died at age 23 of a drug overdose, outside the Viper Room, a Hollywood Nightclub partly owned by actor Johnny Depp, and was cremated in Gainesville, Florida.
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 THE RIVER MOVIE TRAILER PAGE - Videodetective.com
Persuaded to accompany his friend to a film set where she works as a production assistant, Xiao-Kang is recruited by the director to play a corpse floating in a polluted river.
Meanwhile, the movie shifts its attention to two other people, a middle-aged woman (Lu Hsiao-Ling) working as an elevator operator in a restaurant, and a man (Miao Tien) who alternates his time at McDonald's and a gay bathhouse.
It's eventually revealed that the two are Xiao-Kang's parents, and that the three of them live together in a Taipei apartment building that's as much in need of repair as their relationship.
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 The River - DVD Movie Central
The river itself is in essence the true spiritual center of the film, its nurturing waters providing for all in the community, from the villagers to the foreigners and even to the majestic pipal tree that sits along its river banks.
The River is a celebration of immutable existence itself, wherein life and death and renewal are all intertwined in an commensal embrace.
The River has now passed somewhat into the faded annals of cinematic history, but it is a film that deserves to be cherished and not forgotten.
www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/river.htm   (1979 words)

  
 Mystic River Movie Review
With Mystic River, Eastwood is back and in top form with one of the best movies of his directing career, this time staying behind the camera.
Eastwood has the audience in his grasp and as the movie slowly builds to it's unexpected climax, you know that you are witnessing a master at work.
Mystic River is a masterful ensemble piece, with Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon as the primary leads.
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 The River (1984 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The River is a 1984 film which tells the story of an American farm family which tries to keep its farm going in the face of bank foreclosures, floods, and other hard times.
The movie was written by Robert Dillon and Julian Barry.
It was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Sissy Spacek), Best Cinematography, Best Music, Original Score and Best Sound.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_River_(movie)   (131 words)

  
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The River was filmed in fourteen states, as opposed to five in which footage was shot in the making of The Plow That Broke the Plains, with a considerably larger crew and the budget two and one half times the size of the first film.
The script that Lorentz wrote for the narration of The River is a free-verse masterpiece which was praised by James Joyce as "the most beautiful prose that I have heard in ten years", and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.
Lorentz suggested that misuse of the river and the river valley bore the responsibility of the horrible financial situation that many Americans found themselves in during the Depression.
xroads.virginia.edu /~1930s/FILM/lorentz/river.html   (1941 words)

  
 The River Movie
The river's rage is nothing compared to the characters undergoing their conflict.
She and Glenn are excellent (so are the 2 kids) but there was nothing about Gibson's character that made me care and his acting is so dreadfully dull.
The only chemistry in the entire movie existed whenever Spacek and Glenn were interacting.
www.movie-pages.com /movie/the-river/0783230591   (642 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Mystic River (movie)
Dennis Lehane (born 1966) is the author of several novels, including the New York Times-bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award winning film directed by Clint Eastwood, also called Mystic River.
Brian Helgeland (born 1961) is a movie writer and director, who graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mystic-River-(movie)   (781 words)

  
 The River
The River, a 1997 film by director Tsai Ming-liang, is only now getting belated distribution in the United States and for that serious film lovers may be grateful.
In The River, Xiao-kang is spontaneously recruited by a film director to play a scene of a corpse floating down a river.
The polluted river, of course, is a metaphor.
www.culturevulture.net /Movies/River.htm   (667 words)

  
 Drowned at the River » Quick Movie Review: Miami Vice
Most “TV based” movies serve only to tarnish the memory of the original, slavishly trying to mimic the formula that made the TV series a hit.
The climactic battle that ends the movie isn’t as long as firefight in Heat, but it is every bit as compelling.
This movie is not your typical summer action flick… It’s a crime drama, and we should be thankful that Michael Mann trusts us enough as an audience that he doesn’t dumb it down in an effort to achieve “Summer Blockbuster” status.
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 The River Wild | Movie Review | Entertainment Weekly
She convinces you that her character, a middle-class wife and mother, is also an instinctive athlete, a woman who relies on fluid physical strength to keep herself centered.
In the movie's white-water thrill sequences-of which there are exactly two-her raft becomes a storm-tossed throne, with Streep astride it like the feisty queen of the jocks.
But before the film reaches its climactic river run, which is photographed to make the audience experience every queasy bump and plunge, we have to sit through 90 minutes of draggy TV- movie melodrama.
www.ew.com /ew/article/0,,304049,00.html   (642 words)

  
 The River | Movie Synopsis Available, Read the Plot of the Film Online | VH1.com
The River was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz's masterful follow-up to his 1936 classic The Plow That Broke the Plains.
Authority, The River details the history of the flood-prone Mississippi basin from prehistoric times to the Depression era.
Special attention is given the efforts by the TVA to control floods and conserve soil in the area.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/43309/plot.jhtml   (166 words)

  
 Mystic River - Movie Review
From a storytelling standpoint, River actually is Eastwood’s most ambitious project in years, with multiple subplots growing like weeds in an untended patch.
From that point on, River slowly trudges through the motions of a tired whodunit, saving its dramatic juices for a blowout finale that never comes.
In addition to a Bacon-Robbins commentary track (what, Penn was too tired?), a second disc offers a number of extras, including a making-of film and a piece by the author of the original novel about his old 'hood.
www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/mysticriver   (830 words)

  
 Mystic River movie info - dvds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
"Mystic River" is a compelling film that could have been a classic with some judicious editing in the end and a rethink of the climax.
Mystic River is haunting and melancholy, and the portraits it paints of Jimmy,Dave, and Sean will stay with you after you have left the theater.
In a time when the goal of most movies is to offer instant gratification with no aftertaste, this quality should be both valued and praised.
www.mooviees.com /mt/movie.php?id=1991   (1164 words)

  
 Ume river - Home
Vindeln river is a tributary to Ume rive.
The river has it source-tributary up in the mountain near the norwegian border in the Reserve of Vindelfjällen.
Our purpose is to make short movies and picture presentations from Swedish Lapland where you all can find travel tip and where you just can enjoy watching nice movie scenery and picture slidshow.
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 Best movie mistakes
At the beginning of the scene near the end of the movie with Lucius Malfoy fuming at Dumbledore in his office, Malfoy's hair is fanned back behind his shoulders.
Near the end of the movie when the convoy is heading back to the Pakistan Stadium, a Humvee stops briefly to allow a man to walk across the street with a child in his arms.
The movie is supposed to take place in and around New York City, however during the car chase where Angelina and Brad are fighting off the three BMW's, a wide shot clearly shows a street sign announcing Los Angeles.
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 The River (1938)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
I first saw THE RIVER in the 1950's in school, in the days when watching a movie in class didn't mean turning on the TV and popping in a VHS tape, it meant rolling in the old Bell and Howell Filmosound, putting up the screen, and watching a real 16mm projected MOVIE.
It is the story of the Mississippi River, what it means to the land, and what we have done to it.
And it doesn't hurt that the musical score, by Virgil Thompson, is arguably the greatest musical score written for any movie (it is in its orchestral suite format a concert standard and has had many recordings, and is also available as the complete score on at least one recording).
www.imdb.com /title/tt0029490   (436 words)

  
 Mystic River - Movie Review
It's something of a rarity these days to encounter a crime movie that doesn't batter you across the face with one unlikely twist after another, whilst simultaneously forcing an unfathomable number of characters and contrivances down your throat.
Sean Penn, not a man you generally tend to associate with great movies, delivers the goods in spades as Jimmy, the ex-con turned family man whose life is torn apart when daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum) is found brutally murdered.
Jimmy's childhood friends Sean and Dave (Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins) soon become embroiled in the case - Sean because he's the detective given the job of investigating it, and Dave because he soon emerges as the chief suspect.
www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/471   (520 words)

  
 Mystic River Movie review
Clint Eastwood's moody, dark movie of Dennis Lehane's novel "Mystic River" is one of his best films as a director, topped only by "Unforgiven." This new film examines the result of a childhood trauma on three boyhood friends, and the ever-widening circles of other people it affects, directly and indirectly.
The only serious failing of "Mystic River" is that it's hard to identify with the characters; each is so troubled, so dark that they remain at arm's length.
But this is as intelligent and well-crafted as Hollywood films get; if you accept the fact that it is a disturbing film offering little comfort to characters or audience, it is very much worth seeing.
www.audiorevolution.com /movies/mysticriver   (1416 words)

  
 Just-Kidding Productions
I've made a total of over nine movies so far and they were made for entertainment, not to depict any actual events.
We were mistakenly told that The River was going to be in the Bitfilm Festival in Germany, so disregard any former rantings of joy you may have heard from me on the subject.
He brings to the table a strong background in theatre, and is helping to make sure the movies we make tell the story like it should be, interesting, and easy to follow.
justkidding.bf1942files.com   (1004 words)

  
 Myriad Pictures: The River King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found floating in the river.
Abel, however, cannot let the case go, not only because his own brother committed suicide years before, but also it seems that the spirit of the dead boy is leaving them clues as to what really happened that night.
The River King is a Myriad Pictures and Movision Entertainment Limited presentation of a Kismet Films, IMX Communications, Spice Factory, Myriad Pictures Ltd. production in association with Movision, Telefilm Canada, TMN: The Movie Network and Movie Central.
www.myriadpictures.com /film.php?film=48   (193 words)

  
 Mystic River (movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
For the (A navigable body of water) waterway, see (additional info and facts about Mystic River) Mystic River.
For the novel, see (additional info and facts about Mystic River (book)) Mystic River (book).
The crime is investigated by Sean, who has become a (The force of policemen and officers) policeman.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/my/mystic_river_(movie).htm   (286 words)

  
 Movie Reviews | The River King | Straight.com
The New England private boarding school at the centre of her River King has a storied past, from a flood that ravaged the building in 1858 to a headmaster's wife who hanged herself.
But in the movie The River King, all that atmospheric background is basically reduced to one idle remark.
The body in the river is that of loner and outcast Guy Pierce (the believably tormented Thomas Gibson).
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 mystic river movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Mystic River Movie - Mystic River - Movie
Eastwood's moody, dark movie of Dennis Lehane's novel "Mystic River" is one of...
Mystic River is the perfect blend of drama and crime, a story that reaches deep into the characters...
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 House by the River (1950)
As the movie begins, a dead animal floats by on the river in front of Stephen's house.
Ambrose (Ann Shoemaker), complains that she is tired of looking at it, as it passes by every day, coming in and out with the tide.
And he forgets all about the river and its tendency to return what has been given to it.
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 Fritz Lang - House by the River | Movie (1950)
Fritz Lang - House by the River
House by the River is a fair mystery which lacks sufficient plot twists and suspense.
As screenplayed from an A.P. Herbert novel, the film departs from the conventional whodunit in that the audience knows the identity of the murderer from the opening reel.
www.leninimports.com /house_by_the_river.html   (145 words)

  
 Movie campbell river   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
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