Overview
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
Cast
- Mel Gibson as Tom Garvey
- Sissy Spacek as Mae Garvey
- Scott Glenn as Joe Wade
- Billy Green Bush as Harve Stanley
- Shane Bailey as Lewis Garvey
- Becky Jo Lynch as Beth Garvey
- Don Hood as Senator Neiswinder
- James Tolkan as Howard Simpson
- Bob W. Douglas as Hal Richardson
- Andy Stahl as Dave Birkin