A River Runs Through It (film)
- Craig Sheffer as Norman Maclean
- Brad Pitt as Paul Maclean
- Tom Skerritt: Rev. Maclean
- Brenda Blethyn: Mrs. Maclean
- Emily Lloyd: Jessie Burns
- Edie McClurg: Mrs. Burns
- Stephen Shellen: Neal Burns
- Vann Gravage: Paul Young
- Joseph Gordon -Levitt: Young Norman
- Nicole Burdette: Mabel
From A River is an American film directed by Robert Redford in 1992. It was created based on the eponymous, semi- autobiographical novel by Norman Maclean from the year 1976.
Action
The main plot of the film is located in Missoula (Montana) in the 1920s. It tells the story of two brothers who, but both are fundamentally different in character united in love for fly fishing. One of them, Paul (Brad Pitt), a fun-loving and home related nature boy - the other, Norman ( Craig Sheffer ), a quiet and reserved intellectual.
In the idyllic nature of Montana, the film shows the contrast between the ideal world of the presbyterian - pastoral childhood home of the Maclean brothers and the harsh reality in times of Prohibition and the Great Depression, the Helena noticeable even in the provincial area of the small town in the 1920s had. Norman leaves his parents to study at the elite University Dartmouth literature. The fun-loving daredevil Paul remains in Montana, where he worked after college graduation as a local reporter.
While Norman's life story solidified more and more ( he engaged and gets a job as a literature professor in Chicago ), Paul gets more and more in the mills of alcoholism and gambling addiction. Even occasional visits to the family home and the deep spirituality that emanates for the two brothers from fly fishing, can not prevent Paul his vices, paid in the end because of his gambling debts with his life.
Production
The church scenes in which Reverend Maclean's sermons are shown were shot in the town of Livingston in Montana in the Lutheran Redeemer Lutheran Church.
Reviews
- In the lexicon of international film from the Catholic Film Service of the film was a " staged carefully and without sensationalism " and referred to as " soothing departure from the majority of Hollywood productions ," which would meet "in his internalized narrative the spirit of autobiographical template exactly ."
- Cinema described the film as " meditative, poetic- philosophical Saga " and " contemplative family portrait " and said that " the Oscar-winning camera metaphor rich through the beautiful mountains of Montana " revel.
Awards
- Best Director: Nominated for Robert Redford
- Best Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot
- Best Adapted Screenplay: Nomination for Richard Friedenberg
- Best Original Score: Nomination for Mark Isham
- Best Picture Soundtrack: Nomination for Mark Isham