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...Norman Maclean (played by Craig Sheffer) and his brother Paul (Brad Pitt). Their father (Tom Skerritt) is both a preacher and a fisher, sermonizing from the pulpit, the study and from the river banks. The Reverend Maclean teaches them equal respect for God's word and God's fish. As he is happy to remind his children, the apostles were all fishers - and fly fishers at that...
...afraid that it might be impossible to understand "A River Runs Through It" without a good understanding of fishing, especially the variety of fishing that relies on tricking the fish with a fly rather than simply baiting it. (For these Presbyterian fishermen, using bait is as bad as being a Methodist.) Fortunately, Redford frequently comes to the rescue, carefully explaining the complexities of fishing from on high...
...Redford, "A River Runs Through It" is a labor of love. If he doesn't fly fish, it's clear that he wishes he could. When Redford speaks for Norman Maclean as the narrator he wishes Maclean's life had been...
Visually, the directing is sublime. Director of Photography Philippe Rousselot makes every fishing line shine in the sun and every river glint with promised fish. Some of the fishing sequences are absolutely spectacular as the camera goes from fisher, to fishing line to fish. How do you direct a fish? I guess if you're a good enough fisherman, you can make a fish do anything. Some mention should be made of the film's four "Fly Fishing Consultants...
...River Runs Through It, his memoir-novella about growing up in Montana in the early years of this century. The phrase is both appropriate and curious: appropriate because his little story (104 pages) is mostly about standing in mountain streams with his brother Paul, fly-fishing for trout; curious because Maclean's prose is dry and laconic, nothing watery about it. It does not rush or eddy or -- heaven forfend -- gurgle. It runs steady and clear, and beneath its surface you sense the darting shadows of powerful emotions -- big fish, as it were, which the writer shrewdly plays but never...