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Riverworld (2010)

Riverworld poster
Directed by
Stuart Gillard
Genre
science fiction, tv movie
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 58m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 46 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

People from different times and places find themselves resurrected on a strange planet with a single river that goes all around it. They try to figure out why they are there and how to get to the source of the river.

fast-pacedepisodicmysteriousadventurousseriousspeculative

What happens

Riverworld is a television film that had been intended to be a four-hour television miniseries released on the Syfy channel on April 18, 2010. Based on the Riverworld books by Philip José Farmer, this miniseries is a reboot of the cancelled Sci-Fi Channel Riverworld television series, of which only the pilot episode was produced. Riverworld stars Tahmoh Penikett, Laura Vandervoort, Jeananne Goossen, Alan Cumming, Mark Deklin, and Peter Wingfield. It is produced by Reunion Pictures, a Canadian-based production company. It is written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe and directed by Stuart Gillard. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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