![]() Here’s a photo of their house, a few blocks from my neighborhood.Īcross the street is the Presbyterian church where Norman and Paul’s father, played in the movie by Tom Skerritt, was the minister. The story is set in my town of Missoula, where the real family lived. “The world is full of bastards - the number ever increasing the further one gets from MISSOULA, MONTANA.” from the book Written by Paul’s brother, Norman, it’s a painful, lovely depiction of the limits of a family’s devotion, and what happens when one of them dies too young. Maclean, with his drill-right-through you gaze, is only one reason I love A River Runs Through It-the movie and the book. Brad’s role was the troubled, brilliant Paul Maclean. Directly above, we have Brad Pitt in the movie A River Runs Through It (Craig Sheffer, to the left, plays Norman Maclean). It’s not very often I think Brad Pitt is the less gorgeous of two men. ![]()
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