For instance, rather than going for the commercially desirable PG-13 rating that would align with geriatric tastes, it takes an R for language and sex talk. It subverts expectations for each of those subgenres on occasion. Walk is a buddy comedy, a road trip film, and an old people movie.
Nonetheless, the two old men set out to prove everyone doubting them wrong and be among the few (of the many who hike the trail) to actually complete it. Katz is in no shape to jog up and down a street, let alone climb hills and mountains with a heavy backpack on his shoulders. Then Bill gets a call from his old friend Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte), who volunteers to join him on this daunting journey. Bill's wife (an underused Emma Thompson, age-appropriate only in Hollywood) insists that the only way she'll condone someone his age making this trek is with a hiking partner.Įveryone Bill asks laughs off the invitation. He decides to hike the Appalachian Trail, a scenic path from Georgia to Maine that is a little over 2,000 miles long. Listen to our Movies Meet Book club Podcast as Hollister and O'Toole discuss the movie and book.A Walk in the Woods stars Robert Redford as Bill Bryson, an extensively seasoned writer of travel books who has grown tired of attending funerals and fumbling through words of comfort. See the 2015 movie with Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. Fresh, illuminating, and uproariously funny, A Walk in the Woods showcases Bill Bryson at his very best. This amusingly ill-conceived adventure brings Bryson to the height of his comic powers, but his acute eye also observes an astonishing landscape of silent forests, sparkling lakes, and other national treasures that are often ignored or endangered.
Accompanied by his infamous crony, Stephen Katz, Bryson risks snake bite and hantavirus to trudge up unforgiving mountains, plod through swollen rivers, and yearn for cream sodas and hot showers. Winding from Georgia to Maine, this uninterrupted 'hiker's highway' sweeps through the heart of some of America's most beautiful and treacherous terrain. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trailįor reasons even he didn't understand, Bill Bryson decided in 1996 to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian trail.
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