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6.4 (30K) Rate. 51 Metascore. After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) 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, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte).
Sep 2, 2015 · Redford, who is also a producer, initially planned on reteaming with buddy Paul Newman a decade or so ago when he began to piece together this project based on Bill Bryson ’s humor-filled 1998 account of his misadventures while hiking the 2,180-mile Appalachian Trail.
Author Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) is living the quiet life in New Hampshire with his wife Catherine (Dame Emma Thompson) and family. He decides to hike the two thousand two hundred mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.
Sep 1, 2015 · The movie (which opens in theaters nationwide Wednesday) is based on Bill Bryson's memoir of a hike he took on the Appalachian Trail, a reunion with his long-estranged buddy Katz. Redford plays...
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Kyle Smith It was just a few weeks ago that we all enjoyed a movie about a soul-searching thousand-mile hike. This time the same story is fodder for a comedy, but the movie could have been called "Mild." The odd-couple pairing inspires a script that's short on reflection, drama, peril and even laughs. Redford's comic timing is poor, Nolte's acting ...
Todd McCarthy Rather like a fun, geriatric version of Wild, this long-aborning film version of Bill Bryson's enormously genial 1998 book A Walk in the Woodsis a jolly good time, sparking dozens of chuckles and a few strong laughs. Nothing special cinematically, it still provides a welcome showcase for wonderful star turns by Robert Redford, who als...
Joe Neumaier The movie is sprightly despite starring two men in their 70s, with Nolte particularly showing some gusto in physical scenes you wouldn't think he could do -- but he does. He also shows some underappreciated comic timing as a guy who's a mess, a hound dog, a recovering drinker and an unrepentant rebel. http://www.nydailynews.com/enterta...
Dennis Harvey Robert Redford and Nick Nolte go for "A Walk in the Woods" in Ken Kwapis' broad, bland adaptation of Bill Bryson's 1998 tome. Like that mildly amusing travel-memoir-cum-elongated-humor-column, there's light diversion but little substance in this tale of two grumpy old men making a predictable hash of their effort to hike the Appalachi...
Edward Douglas Most of the supporting cast have fairly unsubstantial parts, basically just breaking up what might have been monotonous if it was just Redford and Nolte. Emma Thompson is as great as always playing as Bryson's wife, while Nick Offerman appears for just one scene as a camping equipment salesman. Kristen Scala appears for a little long...
Ethan Anderton Sundance 2015: Taking 'A Walk in the Woods' is Exhausting & Wasteful. When Robert Redford, the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, has a film playing here in Park City, you hope for the best. It wasn't Redford's idea to premiere A Walk in the Woodsat Sundance, but instead that decision came from John Cooper, director of programmin...
Danny Bowes A Walk in the Woods **1/2 Ken Kwapis' film of Bill Bryson's book is not one that conjures ferocious superlatives, but adjectives like "mild" and "pleasant." Its mild pleasantness is its greatest strength, principally in the amiable chemistry between Robert Redford (as Bryson) and Nick Nolte (as his old friend Stephen Katz) as they under...
May 17, 2016 · Redford and Nolte play two old guys who decide to hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail - from Georgia to Maine. Along the way they experience a few mildly comic adventures that includes an encounter with a bear or two and getting trapped overnight on a ledge.
Reluctant to settle into retirement, Bryson (Redford) challenges himself to hike the legendary Appalachian Trail over 2,100 miles through some of the most spectacular and rugged wilderness in...
