I am from Missoula - and "A River Runs Through It" was the first book my father gave me after my younger, my only, brother died in a swimming accident in Montana. He died five days after Professor Maclean did, in August of 1990. My love for my state is strong - my love for Professor Maclean's writing is bedrock; both pale beside the love that I still carry for my brother, gone now 31 years this coming August. If anyone was ever going to do this film, I'm glad it was Robert Redford. I'm not sure anyone else could have done it any justice.
I’m 68 years old. I recently tried to explain to my wife the voice of this ending, and I couldn’t finish. It is heart breaking. And it makes me think of those in my own life, and love, and loss.
I am 25, and this movie instills in me the same feelings you describe. How does one live well, and how does one die well? It’s movies like this that get very close to answering those deep questions.
Everytime time I hear this final speech... I up the volume to the maximum and close the eyes... And I enjoy my tears... Let them flow without any brake....
I have an older brother and he’s someone I never understood. My father the same.. I have a younger brother as well. Men are the most hurt ppl on earth.. I have to watch this movie at times in my life to sober the drunkenness of pain.. the end speech is brutal to my spirit.. but oh so true…
The best Redford has put together. A poem. A celebration of life and death, of living with dignity. I give thanks for being able to enjoy films like this one.
I’m in my 70’s now and some of the best times of my life were those I spent fishing with my brothers. I’m not even crazy about fishing but the bond I share with my older brother is very strong and the memories of our youth fishing and camping are an intricate part of this bond.
My best friend died at age 54 of cancer. He and I did a thousand fishing trips together that started on our bicycles and ended on the Columbia River Salmon Fishing. Fishing will never be the same for me.
May the friendship and love for your buddy bring the best of memories instead of pain. Grateful that fishing was the glue that made experience of the love and respect flourish. Truly a movie to relish although it reminds us love is uniquely fulfilling yet vulnerable.
Whenever the conversation turns to favorite movies, I always include this one as one of mine, and someone inevitably asks- isn’t that the movie about fly fishing? I take a second, reply no, and then tell them they must see this movie. If they think the movie is about fly fishing after they’ve seen it, well there’s no helping them.
The ending of this film is pure perfection. It makes me think of the best friend I will ever have. Sadly, he passed away a year ago, but I will carry the memories of our friendship forever. "Now the best friend I ever had is dead, but I will always reach out to him. Eventually, all things merge into one and you will experience the perfect friendship." I am haunted by Curtis Allen Chapman II.
I recently lost my best friend. We used to drive the canyons in montana together..he left a wife and two young children. Lost to addiction. He was the sweetest person ever. The words of the minister always hit hard, "we can love completely without complete understanding " I tried to help him always but he slipped through my fingers no matter what I did. The memories will be forever and God has taken him with him! One day I hope to fish the great rivers of montana with his son as With him!
I watched this masterpiece when I was 9 years old... Now I am 24 and it is still one of my favorite movies! Really well written and filmed! Greetings from Greece 👍
This last month my father and grandfather both past away. They both fished and hunted with me, my father was also a priest and the best man I have ever known in my life. My grandfather was the best fisherman I knew, as a kid he could even lay on the bank and toss out trout by hand. This movie was always special to me but with everyone now dead it has alot more weight.
The music, the writing & actors, the scenery, the feeling of this film brings to myself a feeling of wholesomeness and a few important life lessons...plus making me cry a little bit.
Moving. A liftetime fly-fisherman, and on the 'back side' of life, this movie resonates. I can't count the number of times I've watched it, but there are incredible life lessons here that I go back to time and time again. Like the end of this movie, I find myself casting on waters where my family may question my judgement at my age, but alas nothing whispers like a river. I learn something every moment I step into the water and this movie casts the perfect scene - some of us are haunted by waters. Tight lines friends.
Been watching this movie since 1996 when we had the cabin in Montana near White Sulpher Springs / Smith River. Tenderfoot Creek ran thru our property & it backed up to parklands. We’ve enjoyed this classic 30-40+ times. Still love it & our teenage daughter now watches it with us.💛🌄Montana… 🙏🇺🇸”Montana is what America was…” Except that it seems to be changing fast, too:(:(😢🙏
No one mentions how perfectly ethereal Robert Redford’s voice is in the final scene. Not the slightest falsity. He makes me feel I’m in my most special place in the company of those most meaningful to me and whom I’ve loved the most. I wouldn’t bet against it being Paradise and the voice being that of the Divine welcoming and introducing you. The scene doesn’t grab us so much as we recognize it. You may not recognize it from your life but you want to. If this isn’t Heaven, it’s the Gateway. It’s likely worth playing at your funeral. Happy Wednesday. 🐠💕😁❤️💐💜 Hm
Izaak Walton - author of "The Complete Angler" "Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration." "God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." Show less
He leído 'El Perfecto Pescador de Caña " de Izaak Walton varias veces desde que era un niño y me ha encantado esta cita del libro que usted ha reproducido. También he visto esta magnifica película varias veces y se me saltan las lágrimas con su final magistral: " y algunas de esas palabras son las de ellos "
don't know what's better---a river runs through it 25th anniversary and other stores book or a river runs through it movie. i will say the book has lots more stories in it. hopefully they turn the other stories that's in the book into a movie or two.
What Great Story First!! Then Mr Redford Made it an Even Greater One. I 🤔🤔 too Find myself Haunted by Waters. This Story will Forever Stay with Me!! I will always appreciate My Oldest Sister? For often Times? Knowing Me Better, than even I do Myself? As the Phase implies, Our Lives all seem too follow a Given River? or Course.
One of my all time favorite movies!!! I just just a teenager when it first came out on film and now that I'm 46 the movie seem to hit differently. Especially this end speech.
(( 📖 )) I had the 25th anniversary of a river runs through it and other stories book. which by the way, it wasn't a bad book to read. I actually like the movie better, although I do not like the way they changed things in movie. Plus there was some parts that they had left out when they did the movie too. I know when they do movies, it's different compared to the book or books. Still a wonderful movie to watch and yes I have it on dvd. I just wish that they made the other stories in the book into movies as well. Just saying it'd be nice to see how those other stories would turn out as movies.
