Widow Sarah Slavin (Connie Sellecca) wants to spend the weekend whitewater rafting with her teenage daughter Chrissie (Alana Austin), her son Gus (Anthony DeFilippo), and her boyfriend, Bob Brown (Matt McCoy).  White water rafting probably isn’t the best way to introduce your kids to your new boyfriend but Sarah is hoping they can all bond while trying not to drown.  Instead, they find an injured man in the woods and then end up getting held prisoner by two escaped prisoners who are searching for some money that they claim is hidden somewhere nearby.  If you were in the middle of the woods and miles away from civilization, would you stop to help a wounded man who is wearing a prison uniform?  If it was just me, I probably would.  But if I was looking after two kids, the escaped con would be on his own.

I watched this movie on YouTube earlier today.  At first, I thought it was a pretty obvious rip-off of The River Wild, with a bunch of television actors replacing Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon.  But then, about halfway through, there was a really good twist that totally changed what the movie was about and it actually caught me by surprise.  There’s a decent amount of suspense and some good rafting scenes.

I instantly recognized Matt McCoy as being the goofy spokesman from the insurance commercials that would always air whenever my aunt was watching her mystery movies.  After watching Matt McCoy in this movie, all I can say is that I will never look at a Hartford Insurance commercial the same way again!