. to not live in montana and especially not to live there at the end of the 19th century . a river run through it certainly be a well make movie from a cineastic stand point . great landscape and redford act well . unfortunately and the story be bad ( if there be a story at all ) . i felt sorry for the narrator or author and who be a dry and narrow mind a character a his father and a preacher . be drive and not drive his own life and he be leave to watch his brother and who be also cage in the small town environment and lose his life . the author never even come close to undestand his brother motivation and but at least realizes and that he be lack the slight amount of homour or fun . all there be and be fly fishing and where he follow even a an old man the style of his father . the end be not surprising and it be forseeable from the very begin . definitely not a must see ( 3 or 10 ) .