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Shoving off, they encounter a suspiciously charming fellow named Wade (Kevin Bacon) and his suspiciously charmless pal, Terry (John C. Reilly), also eager to shoot a few rapids. Wade is flirtatious with Gail, self-consciously chummy with Roarke...
...guess the rest before it happens, since Denis O'Neill's script is rudimentary. Wade soon proves to be a great deal less than he seems (he and Terry are grand larcenists on the wilderness lam). They need Gail's skill and bravery to get them through the Gauntlet (hushed tones whenever it's mentioned) -- a nasty set of falls, rapids and whirlpools. Tom takes a little ) more time to prove that he is a great deal more than he seems, a tenacious defender of (shall we say) family values...
...around the campsites, possibly because the screenplay is not very tightly or eccentrically wound, possibly because Bacon takes his best line too literally. "I am a nice guy," he says at one point. "I'm just a different kind of nice guy." As a result, Bacon doesn't hone Wade's menace as sharply as he might. He needs to become more erratic, more dangerous, as they paddle farther and farther from civilization, but he doesn't make it all the way to psychopathy...
...Dartboard are concerned. Always on the lookout for breaking news and shifting cultural paradigms, we constantly wade through masses of information from all over the globe. This week, by accident, a copy of the Harvard Independent appeared before our unsuspecting eyes...
These woman, a.k.a. "moon dolls," have pipe-cleaner antennae growing out of their bouffant hairdos. They wear loin cloths and wade in the plastic-bottomed pools surrounded by the fake shrubbery of the surfaceof the "moon." This was her second film and one which Wishman considers her least favorite "because the people are so ugly...