
In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford), instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife, Catherine (Dame Emma Thompson), and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - two thousand two hundred miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied ... (Full plot summary below)
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In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford), instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife, Catherine (Dame Emma Thompson), and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - two thousand two hundred miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek - his long-lost and former friend Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte), a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer who, after a lifetime of relying on his charm and wits to keep one step ahead of the law - sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before its too late. The trouble is, the two have a completely different definition of the word, "adventure". Now they're about to find out that when you push yourself to the edge, the real fun begins.
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| Detroit NewsTom LongNolte has three Oscar acting nominations to his credit, Redford has one; In A Walk in the Woods they show what true cinematic chemistry is all about without appearing to be acting at all. |
| The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Kathy FennessyIt's enough to make those Grumpy Old Men movies seem like masterworks of grace and subtlety. |
| Fort Worth WeeklyKristian M. Lin[Nolte] and Redford make an agreeable comedy team, and they're framed against some spectacular scenery along the trail that Kwapis and his second unit almost can't help but find. |
| Tri-City HeraldGary WolcottSome will find parts of this offensive. Grow a sense of humor. I recommend hiking to a local theater and catching this really funny old guy buddy flick. |
| Salt Lake City WeeklyScott RenshawThere's almost nothing here beyond the opportunity to watch two veteran actors play off one another -- and it turns out that's enough. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenInstead of sharp comedy and insight into these men, we get broader situational and physical comedy skits. Despite that, enough of the comedy works. Redford and Nolte work so well together that it is worth joining these two guys on this trip. |
| Radio TimesKaren KrizanovichDespite plodding interchanges and lack of cinematic bravura for some of America's most spectacular scenery, Redford and Nolte are genuinely hilarious together. |
| Daily Mirror (UK)David EdwardsLike the book upon which it's based, Robert Redford's latest is a film of small but continual pleasures - an amiable amble that's almost impossible to dislike. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreIt is funny, and Redford, gracious as ever, makes a wonderful straight-man for a comic co-costar who has the face, voice and posture of a geezer who probably should have tackled this healing hike 20 years earlier. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattTheir odd couple interplay propels a series of shambling, expletive-laden mishaps that aim more for easy laughs than Wild epiphanies. |