"A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson is one of my all time favorite books. The humor, the travel, the stories are all great. Naturally I have been excited to see the movie of the same name. Robert Redford plays Bill and Nick Nolte plays Katz, an old friend from his high school days. They embark on a plan to hike the Appalachian Trail (all 2,200 miles of it)! It is the ultimate buddy story as they traverse the trail meeting all sorts of characters and bears. There are no characters as strange as Katz though. The movie follows the books with some license. After all it is hard to put all the happenings into a two hour movie especially when the story is true. Totally Enjoyable. The supporting cast includes Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman, and Kristen Schaal.
The movie is more "R" than the book with many F bombs thrown in. I missed hearing Bill Bryson tell the story, but the books humor still comes through. It is weird that the movie was full of Boomers and no one else!
I give the movie ****stars and the book *****.
2015 Movie #42
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