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The River Wild is a 1994 American thriller film starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, and David Strathairn.It was directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Denis O'Neill. It follows a young family whose white-water rafting holiday is endangered when they are taken hostage by a pair of armed fugitives.
The following year, Streep starred in The River Wild, as the mother of children on a whitewater rafting trip who encounter two violent criminals (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly) in the wilderness. Though critical reaction was generally mixed, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone found her to be "strong, sassy and looser than she has ever been onscreen".
In 1995, Streep starred opposite Clint Eastwood as an unhappily married woman in The Bridges of Madison County, her biggest critical and commercial success of the decade. [ 14 ] [ 17 ] Although her dramas of the late 1990s received a mixed reception overall, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] she was praised for her role as a cancer patient in One True Thing (1998 ...
The actress is playing the role Streep made famous on screen in ... Prada, Death Becomes Her, Postcards From the Edge, It’s Complicated, Doubt, Out of Africa, Julie & Julia, and The River Wild."
(His father, actor David Strathairn, played Streep's cautious husband in 1994's "The River Wild.") According to People , the couple was only married for about a month before filing for divorce.
The Streep-Gummer Family. ... (“Something Wild” and an Academy Award-nominated turn in “Working Girl”) and the grandmother of actor-model Dakota Johnson (the “Fifty Shades” series ...
Joseph Francis Mazzello III (born September 21, 1983) [1] is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Tim Murphy in Jurassic Park, Roarke Hartman in The River Wild, Eugene Sledge in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, Dustin Moskovitz in The Social Network, and Queen bass player John Deacon in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.
Meryl Streep: The River Wild: Gail Hartman 1995: Susan Sarandon ‡ Dead Man Walking: Sister Helen Prejean [2] Joan Allen: Nixon: Pat Nixon: Elisabeth Shue: Leaving Las Vegas: Sera Meryl Streep: The Bridges of Madison County: Francesca Johnson Emma Thompson: Sense and Sensibility: Elinor Dashwood 1996: Frances McDormand ‡ Fargo: Marge ...