Screenwriter thomas rickman was underwritten for his directorial debut by. Experience pigeon river whitewater rafting and tubing in the great smoky mountains. People that live along a river are proud to be called river rats. Its a tossup as to which is more enjoyable in river rat, the film itself or the wall towall musical score by mike post. Its a good cast, working in the service of a story that gets weaker as it goes along. When an exconvict returns to his mississippi river home to meet his teenage daughter. With tommy lee jones, martha plimpton, brian dennehy, shawn smith. The river rat, lake wylie, rock hill urbanspoonzomato. Its a tossup as to which is more enjoyable in river rat, the film itself or the walltowall musical score by mike post. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comic con sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events.
The river rat is a lowkey southern family drama with trace amounts of tension but nothing too tense. On the lazy banks of the mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her timeserved but innocent father. The river rat is a 1984 independent family film directed by thomas rickman and starring tommy lee jones and martha plimpton. When an exconvict returns to his mississippi river home to meet his teenage daughter, whom he hasnt seen since infancy, he finds himself. When an exconvict returns to his mississippi river home to meet his teenage daughter, whom he hasnt seen since infancy, he finds himself with more than a handful. Jones is an excon reunited with the daughter he never knew plimpton, trying to avoid a dangerous man from his past dennehy.
The river rat 1984 stream and watch online moviefone. Go tubing in townsend, gatlinburg, pigeon forge tn. The coypu, or giant river rat, filmed in its natural habitat daily mail. My life as a mississippi river rat travel smithsonian. It is an interesting example of a wellmade film that isnt trying to be a blockbuster and shows the interesting alternative side to american film making. The river rat is a film directed by tom rickman with tommy lee jones, martha plimpton, brian dennehy, shawn smith, year. But to my mind the star of the film is martha plimpton in her first role. My life as a mississippi river rat a half century spent on, in, and around our most allamerican body of water riverbank of the mississippi river as. Other scenes were filmed on the ruby horsethief section of the colorado river, the rogue river in southern oregon, and the middle fork of the flathead river. Filmed on location in kentucky, on the banks of the ohio river.
The coypu, or giant river rat, filmed in its natural habitat. You may remember post as the producer of your favorite van halen. After serving time for a theft he didnt commit, all billy wants to do is to reconnect with his daughter. The river rat is a 1984 independent family film starring tommy lee jones and martha plimpton.
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