this be an excellent movie . a a canadian who grow up with a rural lifestyle much of it be familiar and the winter and canoeing and trapping and hunting and the like . it be easy to take the familiar for grant but after watch this film a few time it have grow on me . the story of grey owl be well know to many canadian credit to director attenborough and screenplay writer nicholson for expand the story . brosnan do well portray a complex man and a very fine performance . annie galipeau be lovely in her first large role . the rest of the cast be solid .