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◎导演◎　马克·雷戴尔 / 

◎编剧◎　未知

◎主演◎　Mel Gibson Sissy Spacek Shane Bailey 

Tom and Mae Garvey are a hard working farming couple living with their two children on the east Tennessee farm owned by Tom's family for generations. They and many of their neighbors have hit hard times of late. A downturn in the economy has led to dwindling land prices. But the biggest problem of late has been that their crop land has been prone to flooding as the property is adjacent to a river. Manipulating the powers that be including a local senator and the local bank, Joe Wade, who also grew up in the area and now runs the local milling company that sets the local grain prices, is working behind the scenes to buy up the properties along the river for a song as he wants to build a dam which would flood the Garvey's and others riverfront properties. The dam would generate electricity, but more importantly for Joe it would provide irrigation opportunities for farm properties away from the river, such as his own. Tom already intensely dislikes Joe as he and Mae used to go together. ... 电影中的感情比阶级那些议题描写的更细腻。 梅尔·吉布森扮演的农场主为了保住自己辛苦耕耘的农场，与妻子一道同大自然、银行家、土地开发商展开了一场激烈的斗争……这是一部催人上进的影片。