Deliverance (1972, Warner Brothers, dir. John Boorman, with Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Romy Cox) features several mid-life adventurers taking a weekend canoeing jaunt on Georgia’s Chattahoochee Rover before it is dammed up. Well, they go astray and are ambushed by locals who torture them, and have to escape. It turns into full time horror. The film shows the men, already hitting middle-age decline, in various stages of physical humiliation, with threats of forcible sodomy, chest shaving, and much worse. One of Bacon's most sinister performances, with a shirtless scene noted by some writers needing to make a sociological point. Remember the 'Dueling Banjos'.
A somewhat similar film is The River Wild, 1994, Universal, dir. Curtis Hanson, with Kevin Bacon, Meryl Streep as Gail Hartman. who takes on the armed killers posing as raftsmen offering to take them down river.
A comedy on this theme is Without a Paddle, (2004, Paramount, dir. Steven Brill, PG-13, 95 min) is a comedic recreation of "Deliverance" where three hetero buddies go on a treasure hunt along the Columbia River in Oregon after a friend's funeral, and run into various dangers -- Bart the Bear, a rogue sheriff, and then two hillbillies. Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard are the three pals (at one point they have to snuggle together), and Bonnie Sommerville and Morgan Fairhead are the two beauties in the treehouse (one of them with unshaven hairy legs). In the end, the guys find out that the treasure is 'staying alive.' They wind up getting credit for busting up a drug ring, that the villains had all been in on. The DVD provided the annoyance of forcing the customer to watch five mindless previews.
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