A River Runs Through It (Deluxe Edition)

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Reviewer: Mikayla Brubaker
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: MACLAIN!
Review: This movie holds my heart. 10/10 experience

Reviewer: John P. Jones III
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The passions of life…
Review: … one of which I will never practice – fly fishing – since there are far too many beautiful passions available than time left in this life.For decades I considered fishing to be BORING, a la Tom Sawyer, sitting under a tree, with a string attached to a worm at one end and a bamboo pole at the other. I had a friend who lived in northern Minnesota who commenced my education into the skill and art of fishing. He was the one who gave me Russell Chatham’s book, “Dark Water,” which provided much additional instruction. A bit more than a decade ago I read Norman Maclean’s eponymous masterpiece, upon which this movie is based. I rated it a solid 5-stars.Robert Redford directed the movie adaptation of Maclean’s book, which he released in 1992. Craig Sheffer so-often has an admirably perplexed look on his face, as he plays Norman, confronting the dilemmas of life. Brad Pitt plays his younger brother, Paul, who would stay in Montana and become a newspaper reporter. (Norman would go to Dartmouth for six years in the 1920’s, before commencing his career as an English professor at the University of Chicago.) I love Tom Skerritt, always associating him with his role as the sheriff in the TV series, “Picket Fences,” though of course he has played many other admirable roles. In this movie he plays the stern Presbyterian minister father, who taught his sons the “religion” of fly fishing. He also instructed the youthful Norman to make his stories shorter.“America as it used to be,” was once the tagline for the Idaho Department of Tourism. The book and movie are set in Missoula, Montana, near the border with Idaho and the Bitterroot Mountains. In the movie a similar sentiment is expressed by the youthful Maclean: “…the Montana of my youth was a world with the dew still on it.” (Note: the credits indicate that the movie was filmed further east in Montana, in Bozeman and Livingston, both of which could provide mountains in the background.) Maclean was born in 1902. Redford did an impressive job of assembling black and white photographs from the period, and then going forward through 1917, when all the able-bodied lumberjacks went off to fight in The Great War, which facilitated Norman’s hiring by the Forest Service at the age of 16.It is not all paradise. To Redford’s credit, he shows the underbelly of frontier life: the drinking, gambling, whoring, and bigotry against Indians. Though it is revealed early in the book, Redford delays to the end the murder of Norman’s younger brother, Paul, who allowed himself to be sucked into the bad influences of that underbelly.The real star of the movie is the beauty of the land itself, coupled with that ever-so-graceful ability to place the fishing line exactly where you want it. (How many takes were required, I often wondered?) Though I will never flyfish, I do have a strong passion for being able to experience a few days camping in the Bitterroots. This movie was another hard push. 5-stars.

Reviewer: theunderdawg
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Authentic, with a great cast, consistent time period culture and beautiful realistic and authentic backdrop.
Review: This is an AMAZING movie. I love Missoula,Montana (where it takes place and is mostly filmed) and the visual of the hill behind the school during several scenes, the hill that now houses the the ‘M’ in rocks with a trail (steep hike) up the mountain. I lived there for a year.Point being, it’s beautiful now and was even more ruggedly, gourgeous when the movie was portrayed to be filmed there and the historical media used for the film. They accentuate the ‘Beaty of the Wild West’ (at that period in time) and that is a major reason to love the movie. It is very realistic, and harnesses light on the rustic and rough nature of the geographical region as well as society at that point in time.. It portrays what I know by growing up in the mountains and about the early European heritage settling in This great country during that time.The acting and the play/screen writing is also high classily, historically accurate in my opinion having studied and living in that country for much of my life.Of course this role was well played by Brad Pitt to say the least. One of my fav Pitt carachters. The other actors where very good as well. The whole family that the plot circles around are very good actors.Lastly the story is weaved in a very interesting and followable way. It’s an easy watch. (In my opinion). Very entertaining with followable but not boringly so plot. It is a moving adventure of growing up in that time period and geographical region. That is very ‘romantic’ or a ‘utopian’ society for me. Not that it’s was perfect, but it seems more simple and pure of truth and honesty to me. (While this may not be true just my romanticize he the time period and region). It at least makes me feel good to watch it for at least entettainments sake and to day dream of a time more simple and without the outrageous mess technology has made our workd.I would have loved to grow up to be a ‘proffesional fly fisherman’ too. Also, not to dismiss the young men that play the families’ boys at the beginning of the movie where also well picked for thier roles and were very moving. They personified growing up in the mountains and reminded me of growing up in the mountains. Playing outside from dusk till dawn. This is a great movie for the family; a little adult situational events and language. But nothing they aren’t already regularly subjected to (for the most part) in this day in age. And also in my opinion. Good date movie too, a good laugh here ad there, touching moments, and the tragic and beautiful intersecting circles of human nature of love, life, family and presented during a time frame as well as its geographical region. It’s one my top 5 fav films. I’m very picky about movies and somewhat portals of semi accurate time periods as well as the real nature of sociological views and values, moral and material itwMs and entertainment vs work ethics of a time period.

Reviewer: Booger23
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good movie.
Review: Good movie about a peaceful dituation.

Reviewer: Marzipanschnecke
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Immer wieder gerne gesehen, mag die Szenen mit dem Fliegenfischen, die sind so meditativ. Super Film.

Reviewer: Monica
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Film introvabile in lingua italiana, mi sono adattata a vederlo in inglese sottotitolato in inglese. Per chi conosce la lingua meglio!

Reviewer: Richie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Prompt delivery top quality

Reviewer: まじんさん
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: 厳格な父、優しい母、変わらない弟、共に過した悪友、そして今も変わらずにそこにある、美しい故郷。観てる人は誰しもそこに郷愁を感じるのではないでしょうか。そして、年を経て至ったラストの美しい映像は本当に感動します。まるで人生のような、大自然の中の川の流れ。リバー・ランズ・スルー・イット。とても良いタイトルです。この頃はまだそれほど知名度のなかったブラッドピットはこの映画のポール役で一躍有名になりました。かく言う自分もこの映画で彼を好きになりました。以降２５年以上、ずっと彼のファンです。強く優しく誠実で、一見、完璧な美男子に見えるのに、その実、内面は危うい脆さを内包している。そんな大胆かつ繊細な役のイメージは、その後の彼の演技や主演役へも影響を与えているのかも知れません。未見の方には強くお勧めする映画です。故郷を離れてがんばっている方には、ぜひ。

Reviewer: TwinPines85
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Until the other night I hadn’t seen the movie since it was in the theatre. Don’t know why it took so long to revisit such a good movie, one that feels even better today than when it was originally released. A great tale that is would be difficult to translate to the screen unless it was in the capable hands of Robert Redford. Montana steals the visuals, the cast are excellent throughout and it is easy to see Brad Pitt as a star in the making. The blu-ray is the best the movie has ever looked, the picture is excellent for an older title and the sound balanced. Who’d have thought a movie about fly fishing, religion and brotherhood would make such as gripping tale but it works on levels. Just a great picture from start to finish.

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