A River Runs Through It
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Movie Reviews of A River Runs Through It
Movie Review: Perfect Parents ...
Summary: 5 Stars
A River Runs Through It is an excellent title for this tale, based on real events and a book. I will never read the book and I have no television-so obviously I read. The reason I like this Movie is simple-its like reading a book. Great storytelling is what you get. You will never forget this story and you will want to share it with others.
Robert Redford Directed this film and I hope he knows what an Oscar this little piece of work is.
When you go to the movies or buy a dvd you are looking for entertainment, sometimes you get more like a feeling you appreciate even being invited to watch=gratitude.
The Performances are outstanding especially the little boy who plays Pitts character at 6 years old-few seconds on the screen and you will never forget the scene. Of course I could go on about ALL the scences since they were beautifully presented, performed and combined into a gem of a tale. If you are a parent you will LOVE this film and probably understand more as time goes by-every time I see it I find something new and beautiful. It is a Masterpiece of real life intertwined with a common groud of survival- means procreation and evolution. The River is a source for driving the Heart of the story. I imagine there is very few people in the WORlD who could view A River Runs Through It and say they wished they had watched Oprah instead. This movie is about spirit vs. effort and like any great sport the most compelling events involve the team who is simply better at the sport and the team who has heart-those are the games you cannot call no matter the odds. There is no other movie like it.
Movie Review: Fitting adaptation
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first saw this film, shortly after it came out, I was disappointed that it did not stay closer to the book. Now, watching it again, I realise just how much the filmmakers have achieved in capturing the spirit of Norman Maclean's novella describing his life growing up in rural Montana in the early years of the twentieth century.
The casting is excellent, with a career-defining role for Brad Pitt. It's almost as if the director has taken the author's description of Paul, "he was beautiful" at face value. Playing opposite him, Craig Sheffer makes a suitably stiff-necked contribution as his elder sibling.
I also liked Emily Lloyd's performance as Norman's future wife Jesse. Strangely, she isn't refered to on the cover of the DVD, whereas Brenda Blethyn, who has far less screen time, takes joint billing. I guess this just reflects the older actress's higher profile.
This film has so much to offer: flawless scenery and costumes, wonderful casting and fine acting. You also get the added bonus of Clint Eastwood's narrating. Yet I'm not sure that it will capture the imagination (or at times even make much sense) to people who haven't read the book. However, it's still one of the best adaptations I've ever seen.
Movie Review: Top 5 Movies on my List
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is easily on my top five favorite movies of all time. You may call me crazy, because there are a lot of good movies out there, many better known than A River Runs Through It. But it is very rare that a film captures the entire feel and Zeitgeist of a place on earth and in history so well that you are transported there in every sense on the word. When the credits start to roll I can almost feel the time warp, as I slowly begin to realize that I am back in my living room, having spent the last two hours in place the cinematographer has genuinely made come to life. And the story is timeless just by itself. It deals with family, roads we take in life, even love. And it is so well told, with Robert Redford himself reading Norman MacLean's achingly beautiful prose throughout the film as narration, that you cannot help but identify with the characters and feel nostalgic about a simpler life in a simpler world. If you have any doubts about this movie, rent it if you want. I promise you will understand what I mean, because to believe such high praise for something that is afterall just a movie takes a great leap of faith. But I promise you will at least be able to agree that someone in the world could feel that way about this exquisite film.Movie Review: Masterpiece of Love and Fly-Fishing!
Summary: 5 Stars
Set in beautiful scenic Montana - near the Bitterroot River, the movie is based on Norman Maclean's much-loved autobiography about family, human nature and fly fishing. Robert Redford directs with deep understanding of the book and the area. The time is the 1900's - 1920's.
Two brothers, very different in temperament and aspirations love to fly fish with their father, a Presbyterian minister. The older brother, bookish Norman (Craig Sheffer), does all the usual and expected things of a minister's son. He is the scholarly more rigid son. The younger brother Paul (Brad Pitt) is bold and daring. He likes to take chances and have emotions run wild. He becomes a journalist for a local newspaper - enjoys each day and pushes the line, but loves his family too.
These two very different brothers are the focus of the story. They love to fly fish, and enjoy this one sport with their strict but loving father. Norman comes home from college and sees his brother's life become unraveled by the usual sins of gambling, wild women and drinking.
This is a very strong artful movie that shows not only the power of family, but life, love and nature tied together by fly-fishing.
Movie Review: beautiful, subtle and deep
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful film about families, growing up, and self-destruction. I saw this when it came out and was again wowed at the elegance of its sentiments and execution, with great psychological realism. It centers around a gifted young man, who is finding himself and getting ready to leave his first home. The landscape and the culture of its inhabitants are also important themes - we see the beauty, the customs of the people in all its grace and macho ugliness.
The plot is also about the young man falling in love. The girl - one of the last major roles of Emily Lloyd - is coping with a brother who is drinking himself to death, much as the young man's brother is beginning to do. That is, they share their concern with a beloved family member who is destroying himself. What a basis for a marriage! Another unusual aspect of this film is how it deals with the aftermath of a meaningless death, which is extremely rare in film.
Oddly, because he almost never speaks, this is pretty much the only major role that I think Brad Pitt does extremely well. Redford masterfully used what talent the actor had, without pushing him beyond it.
Warmly recommended.