The River

The River (1984) was a well-meaning but flawed drama, in which Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek starred as a farming couple who struggle to avoid foreclosure and then must deal with a flood. The film was largely ignored by moviegoers, as were For the Boys…

…a struggling farm wife in The River (1984) earned her additional Golden Globe and Oscar nominations. Spacek starred in Marie (1985), a true-life political drama, and in Fisk’s romance Violets Are Blue… (1986), as well as the play adaptation ’Night, Mother (1986). She was nominated for a fifth Oscar and…