The River Wild

Roarke!

Roarke!

I'm telling you for the 157th time,

turn that damn music off!

It's singeing my hair! You got to find your sneakers, buddy.

Your old ones!

Hey! I want you to go down to the spare room.

See if you can find Dad's sneakers.

I think they're under the bed.

Dad? Come on, Mom.

Why bother?

He's just gonna cancel.

Dad always cancels.

Oh, come on. Something just came up those other times.

Mommy, I have a stomachache in my mouth.

Oh, God.

You do?

Here we go.

She pretends she's sick so we don't go off and leave her.

Oh, Ro, stop it. It's just for a few days.

With those notorious psychos, your grandparents!

Oh. Whoop, whoop, whoop.

I almost got you packed.

Hi. I just can't find

your old sneakers.

Um, can I talk to you for a second?

Oh, you're not gonna do this,

not three years in a row.

Roarke, you take your sister in the other room.

Come on, Willa.

And shut the door.

Please don't make this harder than it already is.

What are we to you, anyway, Tom?

Are we just some gaggle of obligations

pulling on you, wearing you down, making you tired?

Gail, Selvaggio did not like my drawings.

I don't know why. Probably they just weren't good enough.

And they're gonna give the project to Parker.

So let Parker do it. It's supposed to be his job.

Fine, so let Parker do it. Maggie, get off the quilt.

Maggie!

Get off the quilt!

Maggie, get down.

Good girl.

Gail, how did this become such a big deal?

Oh, it's not as big as the Selvaggio deal, clearly.

But it is your son's birthday again,

and he thinks you don't want to spend any time with him.

You understand that part?

I do not treat you like a baby.

I treat you like a slob. There's a difference. Oh !

Hello, darling. Oh.

Oh, let me look at you. It's so good to see you.

Hey!

It's good to see you, too, Grandpa.

You have to sign, buddy.

Hey! Oh, boy. Oh, yeah.

You look good.

Where's Tom? Well. . .

He didn't want to come.

No, no. He's working. You know, he's really busy right now.

Mags!

Maggie!

I think my marriage is over, Mama.

Oh, Bean.

Damn.

Well, he just can't seem to make time for us anymore.

He's let himself get so beaten up by his job.

He hates it, but he spends every waking minute over there.

He hasn't been home one weekend since Christmas.

I don't know what it is that he's trying to prove.

But I'm really sick of the whole thing.

I'm sick of the whole fight.

Everything has become unbelievably hard.

Honey, forgive me, but you don't know what hard is.

That's because you give yourself an out.

In our generation, we had no out.

That was the pact of marriage.

Do you think if I gave myself an out

with your father, given his orneriness and his deafness,

that I wouldn't have taken it years ago?

Mom.

Here, let me take that one.

Roarke. Yeah.

Honey, go buy me a map and get the tags, would you?

Okay.

The ranger down by the water said I had to get some tags from here.

I thought this was all I needed.

This just confirms your reservation.

There you go. Here's your three tags.

If a ranger asks, show them to him.

Hey, can I buy those two first aid kits from you?

Sure. Make it 50 bucks even.

Some of the Band-Aids are missing from one of 'em.

Guy tore his ear up on a fishhook.

Ouch.

Thank you very much.

Here. And can I have a map?

I wish you were too, Pop.

Remember the trip down the Snake River when I was 1 2?

That was the greatest.

Thanks.

Whoa, there, partner. Are you okay?

Yeah, I just got to get new feet.

Until you do, you better slow on down.

You went to that concert?

What?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Great show.

So you saw Jane's Addiction.

Wish I could've seen them before they broke up.

Uh-huh.

So, you goin' down the river all alone?

No. No, me and a couple of my buddies.

What about you? Who are you goin' with?

My mom.

Oh, yeah? I hear this is a pretty tough river.

She used to be a guide here.

She wants me to go down the river

before it gets polluted and ruined, and stuff like that.

What about your daddy?

He had to stay home and do one of his stupid drawings.

Too bad.

Is that your mom?

Yeah.

I'm Wade. What's your name?

Roarke. Good to meet you, Roarke.

Mom ! Mom !

This is Wade. He's goin' down the river, too.

Hi, Wade. I'm Gail.

Great idea, showing Roarke the river before they ruin it.

Wade! Come on, we gotta go!

Be right there.

So he tells me you used to be a guide here.

About 150 years ago!

You must know the river pretty well, then, huh?

Well, I used to.

How far you going?

End of the line, Bridal Creek.

Oh, yeah? Us too.

Oh, great.

Come on, Wade! We're dyin' here!

I wish I were going with you guys.

Well.

Here you go, Roarke.

Keep the sun out of your eyes.

Wow! No way!

What do you say, Roarke?

Oh, yeah. Thanks.

Well, see you on the river, I guess.

I don't know. We're gonna be goin' pretty fast.

Let's go, Wade!

I'm comin'. I'm comin'.

I said the right oar!

Okay, the right one. Yeah ! That's it. Take it!

Get off my damn foot!

It'll be a long haul with him at the oars.

Guy in back knows what he's doing.

Frank used to be a guide on the Colorado.

Push with both oars!

It's Dad ! Daddy!

Is this where you sign up for river rafting lessons?

I got a dry jacket and a pair of reef walkers.

The guy at the camping store said that's all I'll need.

What happened to Mr. Selvaggio?

I brought him with me.

Let's go, boys. One, two, three.

Let's do it! Jump on !

Bye-bye, Mommy!

See you at Bridal Creek!

Whoa!

Whoa! That's it!

I love you, too!

Roarke.

Roarke!

It's beautiful.

Yeah. Really.

Okay, sweetie, put your helmet on, please.

Mom. You don't have to wear it all the time,

but we got some rapids comin' up here.

Just give me a hand, damn it!

It's coming right up!

You all right?

If you're gonna sit there in the back,

you should sit on the floor in the center.

I can't see from there.

Well, then, sit in front.

I like it here.

Okay.

Here we go!

Woo-hoo!

Wow, this is great!

Yes! Hold on, Maggie!

Look out for that rock!

Whoa!

That was great! But where's Dad?

He's swimming.

Point your feet down !

Point your toes, Dad !

Could you just stop laughing for a second

and help me into the boat, please?