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Directed by | Curtis Hanson |
Written by | Denis O'Neill |
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Cinematography | Robert Elswit |
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Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
Production company | Turman-Foster Company |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
Country | United States |
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Budget | $45 million[1][2] |
Box office | $94.2 million[2][3] |
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 film was theatrically released in the United States on September 30, 1994, by Universal Pictures. Streep was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance, while Bacon received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance.