A River Runs Through It is a 1992 American film directed by Robert Redford and starring Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, and Emily Lloyd. It is a period drama based on the semiautobiographical novella A River Runs Through It 1976 written by Norman Maclean 190290, adapted for the screen by Richard Friedenberg.
A River Runs Through It is the true story about two boys, Norman Craig Sheffer and Paul Brad Pitt, growing up in 1920s Missoula, Montana with their father, a Presbyterian minister. Much of the film is about the two boys returning home after becoming troubled adults. A common theme in the film is the mens love of fly fishing for trout in the Blackfoot River and how it impacted their lives. The film is told from Normans point of view.Although both the book and movie are set in Missoula and on the Blackfoot River, it was filmed in 1991 in south central Montana in Livingston and Bozeman, and on the nearby upper Yellowstone, Gallatin, and Boulder Rivers. The waterfall shown is Granite Falls in Wyoming. The church scenes were filmed in the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Livingston. ........
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