The River Wild Director: Curtis Hanson
Can’t you hear them saying in a Wilshire Boulevard boardroom:. “Here’s the perfect holiday film — Deliverance, family style”? A few years back, Curtis Hanson had a sweet suburban couple terrorised by their homehelp in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. Now a new family is white-water rafting down a river with not one, but two psychotics in tow. Of course it’s a treat to watch Meryl Streep do her schtick (now adding sign language to her extensive list of exotic accents), but this is an assembly-line thriller with far too few twists. In keeping with a film that has such a strong environmentalist agenda, Robert Elswit’s camera makes the most of the Montana and Oregon locations. And if serry Goldsmith’s lush score seems rather obsessed with endless variations of ‘The Water is Wide’, a pleasantly lean version of the folk song by the Cowboy Junkies at the end of the film atones in full.
WILLIAM DART
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Rip It Up, Issue 210, 1 February 1995, Page 38
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