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Product Description
Robert Redford & Nick Nolte star as old friends who make the improbable decision to hike the 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail, and that is when the fun begins. Based on Bill Bryson's bestseller, the movie co-stars Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman & Kristen Schaal.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.92 ounces
- Item model number : 35222724
- Director : Ken Kwapis
- Media Format : Blu-ray, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 45 minutes
- Release date : December 29, 2015
- Actors : Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Nick Offerman, Mary Steenburgen, Emma Thompson
- Studio : Broadgreen
- ASIN : B015YYC3UG
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #28,746 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Age is almost seen as a disease in our youth oriented society. It looks ugly. It is not exciting, sexy, desirable. Age is feared. No one wants to be Old. BUT, we are all going to be...if we live long enough. I suppose at one time or other, most of us have said, "I don't WANT to grow up." But when you do, you change from a boy to a man.
Spoiler alert, I am going to give my take on the movie/story...because THIS movie/ story is about an idea...not a place; unless you consider arriving at "peace of mind" a place. This is a story about coming to terms with: growing up, living out your life, finishing as good as you started
We have Robert Redford a, successful financially and socially, writer. Whose young adulthood was spent gadding about. drinking, writing, romancing; and in all that action his life felt full. He found the woman he really got along with and cared for and was happy and had the typical idea of a good life with her and his children. But, when he got older, and stopped writing...retirement...just felt like he was waiting to die...like he was dead already. But he couldn't really get that in his mind. He like many people only know what they think, by what they do...and he wasn't doing anything. So he was lost.
After an embarrassing TV interview, where he was put down, and made to feel insignificant; a feeling common to many retired people, his restlessness and inner confusion became worse. Add to this, as many older people know, your friends, family, movie stars you liked, doctors...it seems like the world... start dying. You feel like there is a gun to your head, like a Russian roulette you are playing with time; that makes you energized with ...? a need...a need to do something...do something now. But what? Your body, and finances (for most people) have slowed down and become less capable. What in the world can you hurry up and do now? HOW are you going to live the REST of your life? Are you just going to sit around waiting to die? Like some depressing waiting room?
So it occurs to him, to walk the Appalachian Trail.
His wife, would like to stop him; but spouses that are civilized can't forbid...they can only ask, reason, and plead. The trouble with those strategies is that unless something is there to grab onto in the other person, it doesn't work. Redford, is feeling empty, lost, scared, hopeless. The only thing staring him in the face that he has to do is to die; and nothing she says can hold him back with that, because everything about dying is about letting go.
BUT, she is able to get him to concede to at least taking someone with him. This is a reasonable request, as the many articles she puts in front of him about bear attacks, broken legs, illness while camping...suggests. So he agrees. And calls everyone he could think of that might go with him, and they all say no. NO!
Then he gets a call from one of his least favorite people, that he used to gad about with overseas...who says he heard from another friend they had in common, that Redford was looking for someone to go with him, and, could HE go.
Thus in comes Nick Nolte. A sloppy, heavy, out of shape, ex-drunkard. Redford is not thrilled, but...it lets him go...so he goes with it.
At the very beginning of the trail, withing ten feet, you see what you expect and it is hard to believe they will even walk a mile, or a day...but they do. As they walk what made life so "easy" so "normal" so "un-demanding" falls away, and they come more alive again. Fear, fatigue, stress; make the rules of NOT talking or thinking about what you really feel, think, or are hiding... crack. Bit by bit, they become real to each other and themselves again. (Funny, how being civilized means not saying or doing anything that upsets anyone...)
They begin to see themselves, and once THAT happens, they begin to get their direction for what they want to do with the life they have left. Before... that life, didn't seem like much left...except: waiting to die, being limited and confined, being insignificant, being UNABLE to do and be again, what they would like to do and be still. But, step by step, day by day, they began to see that they WERE doing with this walk, was what many would never even have tried try to do. Ergo, they WERE somebody...somebody maybe...still...special. They were doing what many can't or won't do... reclaiming their self-esteem.
Just like young people, old people, think that aging is horrible, nasty, disgusting. Old people lose esteem just like they lose their health, and abilities. Your children leave...you are not as needed. Your sexy body, and your spouse's sexy body, goes down the drain. Are you even a sex now? Your job is now just a job, you can't fool yourself that you will be a millionaire now or start THAT business or become famous or powerful. Or, it you have money, power, fame, people...is this ALL there is....is there anything more? Then, you have NO job. Nothing you have to do. Nothing you are supposed to do. The job that gave you meaning and what you said you WERE when people asked you WHO you were...is gone.
It is bloody adolescence all over again. YOU HAVE TO FIND YOURSELF AGAIN. When you are old, and the rules change, and what you think like is about changes...it's the same as when you were young; IF you don't do the work to FIND yourself, AND what you would like to GO for...well then buddy, you just stay lost and unsuccessful and life s**ks.
You learn that you can't live as though you are going to die soon, you MUST live as though you will never die; in that you have to find "your hearts reason" to have a reason to keep trying to live. It can be anything, as long as it gives you purpose again.
When you were young, your purpose was to grow up (get skill, love, success, money, career); and when you are old, your purpose is still to grow, but now it's about "being." What are you? Why are you? Do you matter? Will you have mattered?
I loved the movie. I seldom laugh out loud, but I did in this film. (My spouse just watched it and I head them laughing at the other end of the house over and over again.) The acting was exquisite, like you would expect from real character actors like the major parts. The minor parts, like Redford's son, seemed a little stiff...but they were not important and helped you just stay focused on Redford or Nolte. It was a bloody relief not to see JUST young, fast, brainless people running the hamster wheel of life on the screen. It was freeing to walk with them, to get tired and refreshed with them, to experience with them their walk. The scenery must have been beautiful, after all they were on the Appalachian trail...but my attention was held by the actors.
This was a pleasantly deep movie for a change, YET it was relaxing and funny. The messages/lessons, are more appropriate for people that are dying...like the aged, or the terminally ill; youth is too busy to understand this yet...which is the ONLY reason I can think of ANY low reviews...that and that those people may not have the IQ points. Sorry, but it takes some ability to think abstractly to get this movie; not a lot, but maybe more than average.
How did I miss this one? I am a Bill Bryson fan and listened to him reading the audiobook a few years ago. I am a big Redford fan. I subscribe to Entertainment Weekly. Yet I knew nothing about this movie until I came across the DVD in my local book store.
I like Redford's take on Bill Bryson's persona. Bryson gets more curmudgeonly as he gets older, and he was pretty snarky from the start. Redford has a dryer delivery. He made me laugh out loud a few times.
Nick Nolte's take on Stephen Katz is a character he's played many times. The real Bryson and Katz had their Appalachian Trail adventure when they were in their 40s. Redford and Nolte are obviously quite a bit older than that. Redford is at least in shape, but Nolte on the AT for any length of time stretches credulity to say the least. No worries - they were clearly flown in or Jeeped in or whatever, and likely did not engage in any sustained climbing. (I read that Robert Redford had the rights to the story for some time and originally wanted to do it with Paul Newman - wouldn't that have been awesome?)
I enjoyed the book, but the challenges in putting it on film are all too apparent. Yes, Kristen Schaal's Mary Ellen is annoying - but how long did Bryson and Katz really have to put up with her? Maybe 10 minutes of screen time? Likewise other cameos, including Mary Steenburgen's wholesome-but-lusty hotel proprietress, and Susan McPhail's Beulah, the woman Katz flirts with in the laundromat, are dropped into the action but ultimately take time and focus away from the development of the camaraderie between Bryson and Katz. Emma Thompson has never looked better and I really wish she had more screen time. I may be mistaken but I seem to remember from the book that she and the couple's son actually met up with Bryson for a weekend away from the trail. But this is Movieland and there is just not enough time for a plot thread like that. Too bad they couldn't have done a BBC type mini-series and stretched it into 3 or 4 hours. Ironically, a film in which nothing much happens would have been better served by a longer run time.
It's a pleasant movie, gorgeous scenery, some nice laughs. Robert Redford is not slowing down which makes me want to cheer. It's a perfectly worthwhile way to spend an hour and 40 minutes. Its intrinsic limitations prevent it from being a great movie.
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Decidí hacer la compra de esta edición importada, porque la versión de Zima es un asco, ya que le quitan muchas características, incluyendo las opción de poner subtítulos en inglés SDH. Afortunadamente, las características especiales están también subtituladas en español.
La historia es muy buena, ya que transmite un mensaje muy fuerte acerca de la amistad, y que debemos atrevernos a todo, y que la edad no importa. NUNCA ES TARDE para realizar nuestros sueños.
Audio original en inglés, con subtítulos en inglés SDH, y español.
Reviewed in Mexico on September 26, 2023
Decidí hacer la compra de esta edición importada, porque la versión de Zima es un asco, ya que le quitan muchas características, incluyendo las opción de poner subtítulos en inglés SDH. Afortunadamente, las características especiales están también subtituladas en español.
La historia es muy buena, ya que transmite un mensaje muy fuerte acerca de la amistad, y que debemos atrevernos a todo, y que la edad no importa. NUNCA ES TARDE para realizar nuestros sueños.
Audio original en inglés, con subtítulos en inglés SDH, y español.
Quelqu'uns des episodes les plus drôles ne le sont plus du tout tant ils sont traités avec lourdeur.
Même les vues de l'AT ne sont pas terribles.
Ceux qui se plaignent que le dvd ne soit pas traduit en francais n'ont rien à regretter
Llego rapida y bien.
Idiomas catalán, cast e ingles.
Sub catalán, castellano.