DIRECTED BY: Mark Rydell

WRITTEN BY: Robert Dillon (story and screenplay)

MEL GIBSON AS: Tom Garvey

GENRE: Drama

TAGLINES:

- He might be able to hold back the river. But could he hold back the greed of man?

- How many battles can one man lose and still be a man…

- He showed her his strength, his courage, his incredible will. She showed him her love.

- An epic love story of today.

- It will bring them together. It will tear them apart. It’s where they’ll make their stand.

PLOT SUMMARY:

A young farm couple finds themselves at odds with the local power authority which has plans to flood their lands for a hydroelectric project. –Buy

RELEASE DATES:

1984 December 19 (United States)
1985 March 8 (West Germany)
1985 March 13 (France)
1985 March 14 (Argentina)
1985 March 22 (Sweden)
1985 April 1 (Spain)
1985 May 23 (Norway)
1985 July 19 (Finland)
1986 February 15 (Japan)

TRIVIA:

- Filmed in Gate City, Virginia, and Hawkins County (Church Hill, Surgoinsville and Rogersville) in Northeast Tennessee. Much of the movie was filmed on 440 acres of the Hawkins County land purchased by Universal Studios by the Holston River in Tennessee. It was cleared and turned into working farms in four weeks. The production used a real river regulated for flood scenes with a dam that was slated for repair. The dam was fixed and altered with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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