Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
The story
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
- rape
- based on novel or book
- river
- banjo
- strangeness
- wound
- wilderness
- georgia
- canoe
- rafting
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ed Ramey — Old Man at the Gas-Station
- Billy Redden — Lonnie - The Banjo Boy
- Seamon Glass — First Griner
- Randall Deal — Second Griner
- Bill McKinney — Mountain Man
- Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward — Toothless Man
- Lewis Crone — First Deputy
- Ken Keener — Second Deputy
- Johnny Popwell — Ambulance Driver
- John Fowler — Doctor
- Kathy Rickman — Nurse
- Directed
- John Boorman
- Written
- James Dickey
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 1,865 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Elmer Enterprises
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
