The Girl in the River

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The Girl in the River

Sep 2026

1h 32m

Crime

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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After twin teenage sisters are abducted -- one's body recovered from the Mississippi River, the other nowhere to be found -- veteran criminologist Alan Kramer (Devon Sawa) is drawn into a town suffocating under suspicion and fear. Working under relentless Police Captain Erica Graysmith (Tiffany Haddish), and forced to partner with Amelia Pembrock (Maggie Grace), a brilliant but untested profiler, Kramer quickly discovers this is no ordinary abduction. What begins as a local manhunt erupts into a media firestorm as chilling clues reveal a meticulous killer who plans every move with surgical precision and may be hiding in plain sight. Kramer and Pembrock must crawl inside the mind of a predator in a relentless race against time before another child is lost forever.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

6 days ago

1.5/4

[It’s] a thriller without thrills, a movie without a trace of an identity of its own.

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

Sep 1, 2026

The Girl in the River plays entirely by the book, by which I mean that there’s not a plot development you don’t expect.

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Christie Cronan

Common Sense Media

6 hrs ago

2/5

Predictable and full of cliches, this psychological crime thriller is emotionally hollow, offering little evidence of its talented cast.

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Charles Johnston

Spectrum Culture

2 days ago

Stiffly directed with a script full of clichés, this film’s only salvation is a few sturdy and believable performances.

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Abbie Bernstein

Assignment X

2 days ago

B-

The Girl in the River should be okay fare for people who crave something that can tide them over until the next seasons of Criminal Minds: Evolution and NCIS start back up.

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

6 days ago

The far-fetched twists don’t generate the suspense to raise the emotional stakes as intended.

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jackeline Y

@RT66895204 16 hrs ago

Devon Sawa did good with what he had to work with. The acting for everyone else could use a lot of work. They’ve been in the business so long that more is expected. The story reaaally lacked originality. I pretty much knew the plot.

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Paris-Jasmine M

@Pariberry 2 days ago

this film has to be AI written, cant believe how cliche and boring it was

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Brandon O

@brandufnix 2 days ago

The building dramatic music and that never stops playing made me turn it off

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Emma D

@RT66216662 3 days ago

I watched the movie yet still have no idea what the movie was really about. The main characters were boring, we knew nothing really about them, there was no real character development, no personality behind the boring characters. I was just bored, there wasn't any real detective work. The main detective (forgot her name she was so forgettable) was wrong nearly the entire movie yet was held up as a hero! Wtf! The killer was blah, considering these are known actors, I felt like I was having a fever dream and they were in my own imagination because the acting was really bad in my opinion. The best part for me was the butcher telling off the main male detective (again forgotten his name) that felt like the most believable scene. Bad plot, bad characters, bad dialogue, bad acting and overall just a bad, very boring movie.

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get F

@RT94132462 3 days ago

Don't waste your time watching this. Cheap budget movie. Bad acting. hard to understand. Some very stupid dialogue. Boring. It really is as bad as it gets.

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Buxxie E

@RT41063744 4 days ago

The entire story rests on the question who handles raw chicken and it wasn't everyone else who had a chicken dinner that night but only the butcher ..... That's some lazy writing...

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Synopsis

After twin teenage sisters are abducted -- one's body recovered from the Mississippi River, the other nowhere to be found -- veteran criminologist Alan Kramer (Devon Sawa) is drawn into a town suffocating under suspicion and fear. Working under relentless Police Captain Erica Graysmith (Tiffany Haddish), and forced to partner with Amelia Pembrock (Maggie Grace), a brilliant but untested profiler, Kramer quickly discovers this is no ordinary abduction. What begins as a local manhunt erupts into a media firestorm as chilling clues reveal a meticulous killer who plans every move with surgical precision and may be hiding in plain sight. Kramer and Pembrock must crawl inside the mind of a predator in a relentless race against time before another child is lost forever.

Director: Brando Benetton
Producer: Rick Moore, Joe Lemmon, Andrew Stevens
Screenwriter: Brando Benetton
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Production Co: Samuel Goldwyn Films, Highland Film Group, Andrew Stevens Entertainment, Eyevox Entertainment, Dynamic Color, Black Diamond Films
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 4, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 4, 2026
Runtime: 1h 32m

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