"A Walk In The Woods"

Although my hubby and I had already seen "A Walk In The Woods," it has been a while so I checked out a copy of the DVD from our local library.  Unfortunately, it had some defective spots in it but we found it as a free offering on our Amazon Prime account.

I'd forgotten a lot of the movie and thoroughly enjoyed watching Robert Redford portray Bill Bryson with Emma Thompson portraying his wife.  When Bryson decides (after the recent death of a number of friends) that he's going to hike the Appalachian Trail -- all 2,190 miles of it -- alone, his wife panics and begins feeding him articles about people who have died on the trail.  She insists that, if he is determined to go, he must hike with a friend.  Friend after friend turn him down -- or turn out to be dead already -- but he gets a surprise call from Katz (played by Nick Nolte) who says he wants to go with him.  They grew up together in Iowa and had some adventures together in Europe when they were younger then Bryson met his English wife and life changed for him and he lost touch with Katz.

Talk about a mismatched pair of hiking companions!  I've read the book, too, and I recommend it also as some of their adventures don't make it into the film.  It's a story of male friendships forged through challenges and life lessons learned along the trail.  pazt