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DIRECTOR: ROBERT REDFORD...
...added some colorful boyhood anecdotes and, most important, has developed the boys' relationship with their father, a Presbyterian minister (Tom Skerritt), as well as Norman Maclean's courtship of his wife, Jessie (Emily Lloyd), more fully than they are in the book. Partly it is because director Robert Redford has rigorously maintained the understated tone of a book that never plea-bargains, never asks outright for sympathy or understanding, yet ultimately, powerfully, elicits both...
River is a film more of images than of confrontational dramatic scenes. It is held together by a narration drawn from the book and related (by Redford) over sequences of an Edenic Montana 70 years ago. Norman (Craig Sheffer) is the dutiful son, a young man soberly grappling throughout the film with the question of how to find and lead a useful life. Paul (Brad Pitt) is the classic younger brother and minister's son, a charming sower of wild oats. He works casually at a raffish trade, newspaper reporting. He drinks. He gambles. He womanizes carelessly. It is only...
First, I saw "Sneakers," the new Sidney Poitier-Robert Redford film about Orwellian government use of technology capable of unearthing just about any iota of informations it wants on individual citizens...
CINEMA Robert Redford sneaks through an endearing caper...