“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing,”

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'River' brought fame to Blackfoot 20 years ago

http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/territory/river-brought-fame-to-blackfoot-years-ago/article_a35f73e8-d821-11e1-89fc-001a4bcf887a.html

To many people who have read them, the opening and closing lines of Norman Maclean’s
“A River Runs Through It” are among the most beautiful words ever strung together.

Robert Redford knew it, and as he turned the novella into cinema back in 1991,
there was no question the director would open, and close, with the voice of a narrator repeating Maclean’s words.

“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing,” the narrator would begin.

Some 120 minutes later, when actors Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt and Tom Skerritt were done
portraying Norman and his family on film, the narrator would finish the story while a lone
old man stood in a river on a Montana evening, casting his fly into a stream on screen:

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'A River Runs Through It' is one of my favorite books.

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1. What a beautiful, thoughtful and heart-touching movie that was.

Well worth every one of those 120 minutes of viewing. Hard to believe it was 20 years ago! Thanks for the reminder.