Directed by:
Robert RedfordScreenplay:
Richard FriedenbergCinematography:
Philippe RousselotComposer:
Mark IshamCast:
Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Stephen Shellen, Michael Cudlitz, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Robert Redford, William Hootkins (more)VOD (1)
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In a place almost untouched by time and in an age still blessed by innocence, a father and his two sons struggle to make sense of their changing relationships. The Reverend Maclean is head of the family a stern man shaped by hard times in a land still largely wilderness. His sons are Norman, serious and scholarly, and Paul, a hothead with a weakness for pretty girls and gambling. They are different but devoted and on the Big Blackfoot River they are in perfect harmony, bound by a passion for fly-fishing - the gentle, sometimes mystical art that slowly comes to symbolise their hopes and fears. (Umbrella Entertainment)
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When Brad was starting out, some of the critics were enamored in the same way as the up-and-coming Redford, and this early collaboration was just the thing to satisfy them. The wonderful story had no cracks and still has no cracks. In Norman Maclean's rewriting of the partly autobiographical short stories, fly-fishing is a beautiful frame for the drama of a Northern family from 1919-1937. The young Pitt excels here as the younger brother Paul and draws all the attention to himself. But of course, there's also Norman, the older one, played by Craig Sheffer, and their domineering father, Reverend Maclean (Tom Skerritt).
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