Liz Moore wrote the novel and co-wrote it. A Philadelphia cop is looking for her long lost addict sister. She annoyingly doesn't tell anyone anything, even after being nearly killed. Meanwhile street girls are being murdered.
Amanda Seyfried, Nicholas Pinnock, Ashleigh Cummings, Callum Vinson (the boy), John Doman ('G-Pop'), Joe Daru (sympathetic cop).
I'm not too sure about the ending. Seyfried immediately mistrusts her partner. Then has to come over all apologetic to her sister, when she's had to sacrifice much in her life for her sake.
It's another of those darkly photographed ones. The river - as probably everyone in America knows - is the Delaware, though the title is referring to a long shining river of dead souls.
The Guardian thought it a retread of Mare of Easttown (itself an unofficial remake of Happy Valley) and a slog (8 x 45), and pointed out that the boy was totally unlike a real boy - in fact it's like one of the pods from Invasion of the Bodysnatchers had got him. But we, er, enjoyed it overall.
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