The River

2021 • 91 minutes

About this movie

Director Rick Walters, a 14-year US Army veteran, will go to The River to live with and talk with people living homeless, search for meaning in their experience, and for catharsis with his own battles with addiction and security.

Ratings and reviews

Highly recommended: a documentary on homelessness in Aberdeen, Washington. It is a film focused on how purpose and communication play into the success and failures of managing the displaced inhabitants. The film is now live and worth a watch. This is a microcosm of the national crisis of homelessness in the United States, and their hope is that their film might shed some light and present some possible solutions for others. Also since this video was filmed, during the pandemic with all the remote Seattle workers, I have noticed an increase in Aberdeen's economy. I genuinely hope this increase has a most positive impact on Aberdeen and Hoquiem's homelessness issues.

I'm in this documentary and it's amazing to me that someone was so willing to get down to our level and try and understand where we all have wound up and give us an opportunity to tell some of how we managed to get there and thank you to the director for finally giving us some form of a voice to be heard I will keep you in my heart for all you've done for our community and pray that this is only the beginning of what will play out from this we were a happy people then it's nice to see some