The River

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

On a farm in East Tennessee, a river that floods too often threatens to take the crops the Garvey family has grown for generations. Tom (Mel Gibson) takes a job as a scab at a steel mill to keep the land, while a developer and a local corporation press to foreclose. Mark Rydell has Mae (Sissy Spacek) stay behind with the children and the fields, and the two of them work toward the same goal from far apart.