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At its most shallow level, "A River Runs Through It" is the story of two brothers growing up and fishing God's country--early 20th century Montana.
For some reason, the famous first line of the novel is relegated to the second line of the film. Nevertheless, when Redford speaks, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," it becomes obvious that fishing is meant to be some kind of lyrical metaphor...
Brandt came from humble beginnings. He was born Herbert Frahm in Lubeck in 1913, the son of an unmarried shop clerk, and reared largely by his maternal grandfather, a truck driver, farm laborer and ardent socialist. The grandson took on the grandfather's political colors and, while still in his...
"I AM HAUNTED BY WATERS," Norman Maclean wrote at the end of A River Runs Through It, his memoir-novella about growing up in Montana in the early years of this century. The phrase is both appropriate and curious: appropriate because his little story (104 pages) is mostly about standing...
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...