Product Description

An instant hit at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, THE SAME RIVER TWICE is a rich and warmly insightful mosaic of change, choices and communal living, highly acclaimed as "piercingly poignant" (The New York Times) and "a [four-star] masterpiece! Powerful, compelling and graceful!" (Chicago Reader). In 1978, award-winning filmmaker Robb Moss and a close-knit group of free-spirited friends and lovers took a month-long trip through the depths of the Grand Canyon; a breathtaking, white-water rafting adventure down the Colorado River. Cutting between footage of their youthful--often naked--live-in-the-moment existences and the complex realities of their adulthood today, the film travels the road from peyote to Prozac, creating a compelling portrait of cultural metamorphosis and the struggle to find one’s place in the world. From running rapids to running for mayor, THE SAME RIVER TWICE is an intimate depiction of those baby-boomers who took the Sixties seriously, and then grew up. DVD Features: Audio Commentary with Filmmaker Robb Moss; Filmmaker Interview; Filmmaker Q&A; Theatrical Trailer; Filmmaker and Crew Biographies; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53065 in DVD
• Brand: New Video
• Released on: 2005-02-22
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 78 minutes

Customer Reviews

A Time Machine for 40-Something "Waterdogs".....
If you've ever spent any time on a river -- without a motor -- and were a young adult in the 70's...this film is like somebody opening a window in a stuffy room. The sights, sounds, and abundant nudity will wash over you like an icy jade wave....it's a joy to see brothers & sisters of the "Royal Order of the Rocket Box" who went there too, fellow veterans of multi-day raft trips with all the attendant psuedo-philosophizing, coitus, group & individual angst, transactional dynamics and joyful dysfunction.

Juxtaposing the archival footage with the "where are they today?" clips was brilliant filmmaking...kind of like Michael Apted's 48-up, but with better scenery and more dramatic hydraulics!

If you've ever stuffed all your worldly possessions in a drybag, hoisted a 200 quart cooler and suffered 3rd degree Teva tan.....you'll love it!

really good documentary
This is a really good documentary about a group of raft guides that spent this one summer back in the 70's rafting naked through the Grand Canyon. The same guy that filmed that trip revisits with some of those people within the last few years and shows what they are doing now. This is definetely worth watching. My wife watched it three times in two days.

Bittersweet contrast
I really loved this movie and the contrast of the innocence and freedom of these people in their youth with the reality of the "real world" 20 years later. Unlike another reviewer, I'm very happy none of them turned out to become who they once were rebelling against, that would have just made me sad. The implicit comparison between those who moved on and their "leader" who stayed behind was...well, I'm still deciding who I think is truly better off. But I notice those now living in the real world look so...tired. Then again, I'm not sure that he who stayed behind is quite in this world at all, at least not often. I thought about only giving this a 4 star rating, because I would have loved for the original "Riverdogs" movie to have been a dvd extra. But I think the movie itself deserves a 5 and so it will be.