Plot
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Release Year: 2015
Rating: 6.5/10 (387 voted)
Critic's Score: 49/100
Director: Ken Kwapis
Stars: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson
Storyline
In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife, and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek - his long lost and former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer who, after a lifetime of relying on his charm and wits to keep one step ahead of the law - sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before its too late. The trouble is, the two have a completely different definition of the word, "adventure". Now they're about to find out that when you push yourself to the edge, the real fun begins.
Writers: Rick Kerb, Bill Holderman
Cast: Robert Redford -
Bill Bryson
Nick Nolte -
Stephen Katz
Emma Thompson -
Catherine Bryson
Mary Steenburgen -
Jeannie
Nick Offerman -
REI Dave
Kristen Schaal -
Mary Ellen
R. Keith Harris -
Sam Bryson
Randall Newsome -
TV Host
Hayley Lovitt -
Donna
Linds Edwards -
Darren
Susan McPhail -
Beulah
Andrew Vogel -
Young Hiker #1
Derek Krantz -
Young Hiker #2
Gaia Wise -
Becca
Tucker Meek -
Grandson
Taglines:
When you push yourself to the edge, the real fun begins.
Trivia:
The book "A Walk in the Woods" was optioned in 1998 as a project to team Robert Redford and Paul Newman together for the third time ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting"). However, years of hurdles getting the film made and Newman's declining health before his death in 2008 ended the potential Redford and Newman reunion. Newman was intended for the role Nick Nolte plays in the film. See more »
User Review
Author:
Rating: 9/10
Caught a screening of this movie in Salt Lake City. The Appalachian
Trail Conservancy put it on. What a fun movie, Nolte is great in it!! I
was quite surprised on how funny he was. Redford and Nolte make a good
team. About time a Bryson book got up on the big screen. I wonder how
much of an increase in foot traffic there will be on the AT after this
movie gets released. I'm sure next summer will be quite a bit busier.
If a movie makes me want to go to the location/s it takes place I count
that as a great movie. If you are a fan of the book, actors, hiking,
nature or have hiked the AT you should enjoy this one. Well worth the
visit to the cinema.
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