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.
Acting
Spacek and Gibson's exhausted, lived-in marriage carries the whole film.
Practical Effects
They built a functional dam and flooded actual farmland. Insane.
Cinematography
The river becomes a hungry, devouring character.
Director
Mark Rydell
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