The River Rat (1984)

Directors

Thomas Rickman

Cast

Martha Plimpton, Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dennehy, Shawn Smith

The story

Jonsy is a teenager who meets her father Billy, who has just been released from prison, for the first time. The two slowly forge a relationship as they rebuild a boat named The River Rat. The father cannot escape his criminal past, being blackmailed by the prison psychiatrist Doc Cole, who believes he knows the location of a large amount of cash stolen before imprisonment.

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