Word: redfords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoping to get a chance to read "A River Runs Through It" before seeing the film version. I had been warned that Robert Redford's cinematic version of the Norman Maclean novella might not be quite as clear as the waters that run through Missoula, Montana...
Unfortunately, it is difficult to get past the beautiful scenery and period sets to the true meaning underneath. With narration by Redford, the film opens with sepia-tone photographs of turn-of-the-century main street contrasted with the Montana wilderness. It's clear that Redford wishes Maclean's childhood had been...
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...