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...fact that she's cast as the fleet-footed woman-girl who's constantly searching for an emotional anchor. She always manages to slip out of the committed relationships that might do her some good. Ironically, she finds solace in the least stable and trustworthy elements around her--namely Preacher Martin. Winger provides the film with a breath of fresh air, portraying the frustrated sojourner of myth who finally finds her home among the midst of lime butterflies...
...while the audience is puzzling that out, "A River Runs Through It" happily recounts the Huckleberry Finn-like childhood of 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...
...other hand, Norman, the one with a future, is nicknamed preacher. Craig Sheffer plays him with the naivete and broad smile of an F. Scott Fitzgerald character. An east coast education, a few Montana speak-easies, and a flapper wanna-be for a girlfriend (Emily Lloyd) round out the roaring 20s atmosphere...
Millennial expectations and predictions have been occurring ever since the time of Jesus, but most, oddly, bear no relation to the actual beginning of new centuries. One of the bloodiest episodes came during the German Peasants' War of 1524-25, in which preacher Thomas Muntzer, whose ravings anticipated Marx by centuries, played a leading role. American preacher William Miller prophesied that Jesus would return in 1843 or 1844. Enthusiastic Millerites ; waited eagerly, only to see several deadlines pass uneventfully. Many Jehovah's Witnesses, led to expect the End, most recently in 1975, have left the apocalyptic group in confusion...
Wright's life-span alone is astonishing: his career extended from the beginning of the Gilded Age to the last days of the American Century, from the sod house to the shopping mall. Born in rural Wisconsin to a charming, feckless musician-preacher and a high-strung, single-minded mother -- they divorced when Frank was a teenager -- Wright was inculcated with an overweening sense of his talent and destiny. Anna Wright may have been the first atelier mother: she pushed him hard to become an architect when he was still a child, providing a special set of designer-in-training...