Overview - The River

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

• Name: Mel Gibson

  Character: Tom Garvey

  Popularity: 4.5012

  

• Name: Sissy Spacek

  Character: Mae Garvey

  Popularity: 3.5839

  

• Name: Scott Glenn

  Character: Joe Wade

  Popularity: 2.2029

  

• Name: Billy Green Bush

  Character: Harve Stanley

  Popularity: 0.6178

  

• Name: Shane Bailey

  Character: Lewis Garvey

  Popularity: 0.1393

  

• Name: Becky Jo Lynch

  Character: Beth Garvey

  Popularity: 0.0552

  

• Name: Don Hood

  Character: Senator Neiswinder

  Popularity: 0.6816

  

• Name: James Tolkan

  Character: Howard Simpson

  Popularity: 2.5372