Follow the River

Customer Reviews:

Follow the River........2007-06-27

This is a story about a very strong woman & one that's sorta strong. The stronger woman shows the other what the real meaning of life is. They are both stronger after what they endure.

Great Family/Historical Movie.......2007-05-08

My family thoroughly enjoyed this movie. We were emotionally moved and encouraged with what one woman can do if she has the will-power. We were particularly interested in the story since it is based on true life in Virginia, which is where we live. There is violence and adult themes that might not be suitable for children. The adults in the family viewed it before allowing the older children to watch, and then we watched it with them.

Truth exaggerated to impossibility, Scenic........2007-04-18

The novel, "Follow the River", was based on a true story, and this film is based on that novel.

I read the true story in the book:
"Shawnee Captive: The Story of Mary Draper Ingles" or
"The Long Journey Home: The true story of Mary Draper Ingles"
(Available elsewhere for less money than here).

This film changed the truth just enough to ruin an interesting, true, story. The film is scenic and holds your attention. The men in the story are hapless and helpless.

How many women, in their ninth month of pregnancy, could hike through the forest all day, for days, on short food rations, stop to give birth while leaning against a tree, then immediately start hiking again all day, carrying their baby? A woman wrote the script! Might women benefit from walking all day during pregnancy and right up to giving birth? Is lying in bed really the best way to give birth? Should husbands buy the DVD and book for their complaining pregnant wives? Or was this mindless script-writing? If you click on the comment-button, below, I tell whether such events are true or not.

We are also left wondering whether the very end is true or not.

This film would have been much better, if it had stayed with the key points of truth. You can add things to a true story that do not change the key points of truth. You can new characters to give more personality, whose actions do not effect the key points of truth. You can leave out the uninteresting. You can fill in the gaps and imagine things with historical accuracy without changing the key points of truth. The film, "The Ten Commandments" is a good example, that fills in the gaps of the biblical story well, and imagines pharoah's palace, without changing the key points of truth in the biblical story.

All would have enjoyed more details on how they lived at the time. It is mystifying, that the film's woman writer presented Mary as less smart, than Mary was in the true story. The film portrays Mary: not planning and not stocking food for the escape.

If you hit the comment button below, you will see truth separated from fiction in this film, and see the story's true ending. You will see the film changed key points of truth that they should not have changed, which made the film fiction, untrue, and impossible as presented (the women taking turns with one blanket in winter). The film also left out some interesting truth. A rule of holding to truth would have caused some interesting facts to be included.

This film should be re-made, sticking to the truth, under the title of the true story.

Not worth the purchase.......2006-10-18

I am a huge fan of the book. I've read it so many times that some pages are taped back into the book.
The 'Made for TV' film just didn't live up to my expectations. I never would have picked this cast, I wasn't impressed on how cut up and the acting was so-so.
I found this film a huge dissappointment.

Big Disappointment.......2006-07-12

What a watered down, sugar coated telling of this powerful story! The enormity of the physical struggle to walk 6 weeks in the wilderness was portrayed with slightly mussed hair (with a few twigs thrown in) and a spotlessly clean blue frock with ruffled sleeves. In the book, Mary was reduced to stark nakedness and her hair had turned white. This was a very poor rendition of the book and it must surely be an embarassment to the author. The sugar-coated ending with the chief returning the perfectly intact children was the final straw. Arrrgh!

Follow the River / The Long Way Home / Out of the Woods

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Follow the River / The Long Way Home / Out of the Woods
Starring: Follow the River , Long Way Home , and Out of the Woods
Manufacturer: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000RGSX10
Release Date: 2007-06-05

Product Description

TRIPLE FEATURE 3-DVD Pack. Featured Titles: FOLLOW THE RIVER - The settlement of the New World and the crossing of its two cultures form the backdrop for this sweeping saga of a courageous pioneer woman desperate to escape captivity and be reunited with her children. THE LONG WAY HOME - Retired and depressed Tom Gerrin meets a 21-year-old free spirit, and the unlikely pair hitchhike across the country, giving each other the courage to embrace new beginnings and face sad finales. OUT OF THE WOODS - When hotshot L.A. lawyer Matt Fleming agrees to head upstate into the wilderness to check on his father, he is faced with a decision that will change his life and the lives of all those he has touched.

Follow the River/Young Ivanhoe/Legend of Lost Tomb/Journey to The Center of the Earth

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Follow the River/Young Ivanhoe/Legend of Lost Tomb/Journey to The Center of the Earth
Starring: Nick Mancuso
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000A0GY3M
Release Date: 2006-03-13

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Follow the River
Starring: Ellen Burstyn , Tim Guinee , Sheryl Lee , Renee O'Connor , and Eric Schweig
Director: Martin Davidson
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
ProductGroup: DVD
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Release Date: 2006-04-04

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Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
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