The River [38557] Released: 1984-12-01 Revenue: $11,500,000 Budget: $18,000,000 Profit: $-6,500,000 Runtime: 122 mins Popularity: 1.5423 Vote Average: 6.291 Vote Count: 129 Overview: Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property. Cast [33] Mel GibsonTom Garvey Sissy SpacekMae Garvey Scott GlennJoe Wade Billy Green BushHarve Stanley Shane BaileyLewis Garvey Becky Jo LynchBeth Garvey Don HoodSenator Neiswind James TolkanHoward Simpson Bob W. DouglasHal Richardson Andy StahlDave Birkin Lisa SloanJudy Birkin Larry D. FerrellRod Tessley Susie ToomeySally Tessley Kelly ToomeyLisa Tessley Frank Hoyt TaylorZemke Amy RydellBetty Gaumer Samuel Scott OsborneBilly Gaumer Charles RobinsonTruck Ivan GreenSmoot Desmond CouchWilderfoot Charles G. RiddleYoungdall Jim AntonioDan Gaumer David HartHarley Barry PrimusRoy Mark EricksonBaines Jack StarrettSwick Dean WhitworthDoctor Chuck HansonFat Man Ira M. Quillen IITV Weatherman Matt BearsonFirst Employee Timothy ShaddenSecond Employee Elizabeth LaneSecretary Gary GershawDrifter Trailers The River (1984) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]