Thomas Rickman

The River Rat is a 1984 independent family film directed by Thomas Rickman and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Martha Plimpton.

Christian Rivers

Directed by Christian Rivers, the film is produced by Oscar-winning director and fantasy-action aficionado Peter Jackson.

Rickman

In contrast, Rickman traded on Chuck Russell's post-COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER notoriety to make the regional drama THE RIVER RAT (1984) from Chuck Russell's own screenplay, in which Tommy Lee Jones, Martha Plimpton, and Brian Dennehy’s characters sail down the Mississippi River in search of a stash of money.

Richard Rowley

Solly Granatstein, Lucian Read and Richard Rowley also serve as directors.

Roar Uthaug

The director is Roar Uthaug, whose 2016 Norwegian disaster flick

by Jillian Edelstein

The Water Rats is directed by Jillian Edelstein and edited by Greig Coetzee.

Conrad Rooks

The movie was directed by Conrad Rooks and the river features prominently in the story.

Barry Levinson

Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Bugsy, Wag the Dog) is the director.

Chuck Russel

The action-adventure film set in a jungle was initially supposed to be directed by Rohan Sippy but due to reasons best known to the producers, Vidyut Jammwal was replaced by American filmmaker Chuck Russel who has films like ‘The Mask’, ‘Eraser’ and ‘The Scorpion King’, among others to Vidyut Jammwal's credit as a director.

Dominik Moll

Dominik Moll is considered the head director, with the other directors being Hettie MacDonald, Thomas Vincent, Udayan Prasad and Philip Martin.

Richard Raymond

Richard Raymond directs the film, which was written by Jon Croker, based on the life story of Afshin Ghaffarian.

Susanne Bier

In the river sequences especially, the director, Susanne Bier, uses close-ups of faces – of Malorie and the two children (Vivien Lyra Blair and Julian Edwards) blindfolded or huddled together beneath a blanket – to powerful effect.

Mark Waters

Mark Waters is the one who actually directed the film.

Frank Marshall

The director is Frank Marshall, a former producer for Steven Spielberg, who directed Arachnophobia and Congo.

Robert Del Maestro

The directors are Robert Del Maestro, Bill Anderson, Fraser MacDonald, Joss Agnew and Rob Evans.

John Fitzgibbons

The directors are Ephraim Chappell, Joseph Marshaw and John Fitzgibbons.

Jacques Rivet

The current director is Jacques Rivet and deputy director is Bernard Delaître.

Robert Riskin

The film is helmed by Oscar-winning Frank Capra collaborator Robert Riskin in Oscar-winning Frank Capra collaborator Robert Riskin's directorial debut.

Jacques Tourneur

The director is Jacques Tourneur, a master of dark drama at RKO, also famous for 'Cat People' (1942) and 'I Walked with a Zombie' (1943).

Rupert Sanders

Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) is on board to direct the film.