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.

• DirectorMark Rydell
• Release1 December 1984
• GenreDrama
• Duration2h 2m
• Budget$18,000,000
• Revenue$11,500,000
• Rate
  

  6.3
  133 reviews
• Productions

  Universal Pictures