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Follow The River

Name: Follow The River
Genre: Drama, Action
Released: 1995-04-22
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 7.265

★ 7,3 /10 (17 Votes)

1995 EN 91 min

Overview

Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally reunited with her long-lost children.

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Release date

22/04/1995

Votes

Popularity

1.3

An Enthralling Epic Of One Woman's Grit, Loyalty, And Determination

Genres

Drama Action

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

91 min

Ellen Burstyn

Gretel

Sheryl Lee

Mary Ingles

Tim Guinee

Will

Eric Schweig

Wildcat

Andy Stahl

Henry Lenard

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Tyler Noyes

Tommy Ingles

Gabriel Macht

Johnny Draper

Tony Amendola

LaPlante

Renée O'Connor

Bettie Draper

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**_Settlers vs Shawnee in the heart of Appalachia, 1755_** After a raid at Draper's Meadow settlement in what is now the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, several Caucasians are taken captive and brought northwest to the Shawnee village in what is present-day South Portsmouth in northeast Kentucky, and, later, to Big Bone Lick, which is further west. The resilient Mary Ingles (Sheryl Lee) hatches a plan with an older German captive (Ellen Burstyn) to possibly find their way back over the 350 miles of wilderness. Eric Schweig plays the chief warrior. “Follow the River” (1995) is an Amer…

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