Four city friends look forward to a weekend canoeing trip in America's Deep South. However, their adventure turns into a nightmare when menacing rednecks come down from the nearby hills and subject them to a shocking assault, forcing the men to take extreme action to save their lives. John Boorman's thriller based on James Dickey's novel, with Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty and Bill McKinney