A River Runs Through It (film) : Ask Biography

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Film information

Name

A River Runs Through It

Directed by

Robert Redford

Produced by

Jake Eberts
Robert Redford
Patrick Markey

Written by

Norman Maclean
Richard Friedenberg

Starring

Craig Sheffer
Brad Pitt
Tom Skerritt
Brenda Blethyn
Emily Lloyd

Music by

Mark Isham

Cinematography

Philippe Rousselot

Editing by

Robert Estrin
Lynzee Klingman

Distributed by

Columbia Pictures

Release date

October 9, 1992

Running time

123 minutes

Country

United States

Language

English

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:This article is about the 1992 film. For information on the 1976 novella by Norman Maclean, see A River Runs Through It.'A River Runs Through It' is an Academy Award winning 1992 American film directed by Robert Redford and starring Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, and Emily Lloyd. It is a period drama based on the semi-autobiographical novella A River Runs Through It (1976) written by Norman Maclean (1902 � 90).

Set in and around the city of Missoula in western Montana, the story follows two sons of a Presbyterian minister—one studious and the other rebellious—as they grow up and come of age in a time that roughly spans the Prohibition era (1919 � 33) in the United States: from World War I (1917 � 18) to the early days of the Great Depression (1929 � 41).

The film won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1993. It was also nominated for two other Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Music; Original Score. The film grossed $43,440,294 in US domestic returns.