A River Runs Through It - Final Speech

[@mickfoil]

I am from Missoula - and "A River Runs Through It" was the first book my father gave me after my younger, my only, brother died in a swimming accident in Montana. He died five days after Professor Maclean did, in August of 1990. My love for my state is strong - my love for Professor Maclean's writing is bedrock; both pale beside the love that I still carry for my brother, gone now 31 years this coming August. If anyone was ever going to do this film, I'm glad it was Robert Redford. I'm not sure anyone else could have done it any justice.

[@karuonline3294]

thanks for sharing that.. I hope you still remember your brother with a smile...take care

[@realasscracka]

May you always look back and cherish those moments

[@jorgevial131]

We can love completly without completly understand. May this thought be of service. God Bless.

[@TheRampagingGallowglass75]

God rest your brother's soul❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

[@mkfd4571]

I am so sorry for your deep loss.

[@billyhackett4689]

Absolutely Love this Movie so very much.❤ xox

[@richardchase9811]

each time i watch this movie i am moved to tears.

[@lh9838]

Words so beautiful that we mourn their passing.

[@timward276]

"I am haunted by waters" :: cue manly tears. One of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen.

[@Blueboyo1]

Truly

[@gregtheone975]

Underneath those rocks are the words of God Presbyterian seems very nice in this movie

[@donwoodring8771]

Every time. Out come the tissues.

[@BRNRDNCK]

We seem to be in the same videos all the time, Tim. Good to see you from the classical side of KZbin. Hope you've been enjoying the Op 109.

[@timward276]

@@BRNRDNCK Thank you for your kind comments. The op. 109 remains my favorite Beethoven Sonata, along with the op. 110 and the Appassionata.

[@marimonda8]

The best Redford has put together. A poem. A celebration of life and death, of living with dignity. I give thanks for being able to enjoy films like this one.

[@jakelightford3740]

What a speech 😊😊

[@ChristopherIGomes]

I have an older brother and he’s someone I never understood. My father the same.. I have a younger brother as well. Men are the most hurt ppl on earth.. I have to watch this movie at times in my life to sober the drunkenness of pain.. the end speech is brutal to my spirit.. but oh so true…

[@realrembrandt8273]

I watched this masterpiece when I was 9 years old... Now I am 24 and it is still one of my favorite movies! Really well written and filmed! Greetings from Greece 👍

[@colerainfan1143]

I’m 68 years old. I recently tried to explain to my wife the voice of this ending, and I couldn’t finish. It is heart breaking. And it makes me think of those in my own life, and love, and loss.

[@thucydides7849]

I am 25, and this movie instills in me the same feelings you describe. How does one live well, and how does one die well? It’s movies like this that get very close to answering those deep questions.

[@mattlenton2012]

Beautiful my friend.

[@markanderson3669]

Beautiful indeed

[@francomanca]

Everytime time I hear this final speech... I up the volume to the maximum and close the eyes... And I enjoy my tears... Let them flow without any brake....

[@redcaddiedaddie]

... people are perhaps delegated souls of various kinds & sizes- I think you got a very good one...!

[@francomanca]

@@redcaddiedaddie... Thank you... There are places in our inner side that are full of emotions that just can't burst open in normal Situations ...

[@Mmmaxxx385]

We all have a mastery, you and I share a similar one. The ability and desire to feel it all. One love.

[@ronaldmcdonald3965]

I'm that old guy now. I was once young.

[@lexorcism]

Talk like a narrator, now, I do.

[@sample553]

Nothing compares to this eloquent perfect movie.

[@Rich_Daniel78]

This movie Will 4-ever be a Masterpiece!!!! Thanks Robert Redford & Co. 👍👍💪🙏

[@effyzoelamp]

One of my most favorite movies of all times.

[@karuonline3294]

know of any others that hit home like this one ? do share them if you like :)

[@maywednesday]

Each scenes, each notes in this movie bring me tears and memories of my old days all the time. I’m now in my 50’s and my family was complicated. My parents were divorced when I was 15 and they have passed already. I had no place where I can call my homeland. So I finally started seeking where I can call the soil which is called “my homeland” when I was 35. Now I’ve living where I longed for. There’s one of my favorite scenes in this movie, is that Paul said to Norman. “Oh, I’ll never leave Montana, brother”. Yes, I also will never leave here my homeland where I finally found. My Lord thank you for giving birth me in this wonderful world.

[@adventureswithgrandpa3601]

I’m in my 70’s now and some of the best times of my life were those I spent fishing with my brothers. I’m not even crazy about fishing but the bond I share with my older brother is very strong and the memories of our youth fishing and camping are an intricate part of this bond.

[@actuary33]

Now nearly all that I love and never understood in my youth are dead.. even Jessie. Powerful and heartbreaking line

[@swimbait1]

My best friend died at age 54 of cancer. He and I did a thousand fishing trips together that started on our bicycles and ended on the Columbia River Salmon Fishing. Fishing will never be the same for me.

[@MegaLargemouth]

That is a terrific legacy of friendship

[@effyzoelamp]

Those are beautiful memories.

[@russellhoffman3282]

May the friendship and love for your buddy bring the best of memories instead of pain. Grateful that fishing was the glue that made experience of the love and respect flourish. Truly a movie to relish although it reminds us love is uniquely fulfilling yet vulnerable.

[@DPB1947]

This is my favorite passage of any of the memorable passages I've read in the books I've read in my life.

[@maxbean8781]

This is our family movie. I watched again last night for the first time in nearly 10 years. It did a number on me again..... Simply beautiful

[@johnbatch9276]

The beauty and innocence of childhood we as human beings can never surpass those magical days

[@spencerpalmer8740]

The ending of this film is pure perfection. It makes me think of the best friend I will ever have. Sadly, he passed away a year ago, but I will carry the memories of our friendship forever. "Now the best friend I ever had is dead, but I will always reach out to him. Eventually, all things merge into one and you will experience the perfect friendship." I am haunted by Curtis Allen Chapman II.

[@bryce1132]

spencer palmer love this your friend looks down on you and wants you to have tight lines god bless my friend

[@youarepredictable]

Go Eagles!

[@giorgiovincenti]

I recently lost my best friend. We used to drive the canyons in montana together..he left a wife and two young children. Lost to addiction. He was the sweetest person ever. The words of the minister always hit hard, "we can love completely without complete understanding " I tried to help him always but he slipped through my fingers no matter what I did. The memories will be forever and God has taken him with him! One day I hope to fish the great rivers of montana with his son as With him!

[@tommenisaksen5440]

This gives me chills.

[@williamhale8162]

This last month my father and grandfather both past away. They both fished and hunted with me, my father was also a priest and the best man I have ever known in my life. My grandfather was the best fisherman I knew, as a kid he could even lay on the bank and toss out trout by hand. This movie was always special to me but with everyone now dead it has alot more weight.

[@hbennett5640]

❤❤❤

[@brewster84067]

Moving. A liftetime fly-fisherman, and on the 'back side' of life, this movie resonates. I can't count the number of times I've watched it, but there are incredible life lessons here that I go back to time and time again. Like the end of this movie, I find myself casting on waters where my family may question my judgement at my age, but alas nothing whispers like a river. I learn something every moment I step into the water and this movie casts the perfect scene - some of us are haunted by waters. Tight lines friends.

[@gregtheone975]

I love this movie the father was wonderful Norman you can see was thinking of his brother! Great movie wish they made more movies like this

[@throwawayaccount4156]

Greg G you might want to watch “The Cider House Rules”. I think you might like it!

[@andrewdanz6108]

Whenever the conversation turns to favorite movies, I always include this one as one of mine, and someone inevitably asks- isn’t that the movie about fly fishing? I take a second, reply no, and then tell them they must see this movie. If they think the movie is about fly fishing after they’ve seen it, well there’s no helping them.

[@ADDAuntDawnDisorder]

Been watching this movie since 1996 when we had the cabin in Montana near White Sulpher Springs / Smith River. Tenderfoot Creek ran thru our property & it backed up to parklands. We’ve enjoyed this classic 30-40+ times. Still love it & our teenage daughter now watches it with us.💛🌄Montana… 🙏🇺🇸”Montana is what America was…” Except that it seems to be changing fast, too:(:(😢🙏

[@michaelraffaele9813]

best film of all time.

[@Rocdog]

Makes me think of my sons. I love this book. Norman Maclean was a fantastic writer. I wish he lived long enough to see it.

[@michelehernandez4217]

The music, the writing & actors, the scenery, the feeling of this film brings to myself a feeling of wholesomeness and a few important life lessons...plus making me cry a little bit.

[@MegaLargemouth]

Yes...tears within the first few notes..EVERYTIME!

[@alastairduncan1222]

I'm haunted by waters..... To be in rhythm with the ebs and flows of nature is a glorious thing.

[@tomoyakagawa6461]

But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

[@federico8071]

The whole scene runs through you.

[@swimbait1]

Favorite movie of all time.

[@douglaskondo6314]

Very nice, thanks for posting. I listen to the movie soundtrack by Mark Isham several times a year. Thumbs up!

[@wazka1234]

Yeah, this is great art. Great art reaches you in ways that are profound, beautiful. "Under the rocks...some of the words are theirs" jeez

[@libville]

An inspiring scene from a great movie....thanks!

[@ttquest2757]

Rest in piece my brother ❤️ this was you’re favorite movie and I will forever remember you’re greatness 🪶❤️

[@venushtfproduction1741]

12 years have passed and I still see this :')

[@ardshielcomplex8917]

Simply a Masterpiece, of gentle wisdom.

[@The_Mimewar]

That last line. Jesus that last line sticks with me…

[@chrishaussmann7358]

This movie and Leonard Cohen is as close to God and perfection as you will ever come!

[@PHARRAOH]

NO OTHER movie hot home in me, then this one.

[@moishegoldstein501]

No one mentions how perfectly ethereal Robert Redford’s voice is in the final scene. Not the slightest falsity. He makes me feel I’m in my most special place in the company of those most meaningful to me and whom I’ve loved the most. I wouldn’t bet against it being Paradise and the voice being that of the Divine welcoming and introducing you. The scene doesn’t grab us so much as we recognize it. You may not recognize it from your life but you want to. If this isn’t Heaven, it’s the Gateway. It’s likely worth playing at your funeral. Happy Wednesday. 🐠💕😁❤️💐💜 Hm

[@russt44]

If you love this movie you might want to try Shadowlands

[@raiddear8063]

all the great things comes to an end ; )

[@robertwaid3579]

What Great Story First!! Then Mr Redford Made it an Even Greater One. I 🤔🤔 too Find myself Haunted by Waters. This Story will Forever Stay with Me!! I will always appreciate My Oldest Sister? For often Times? Knowing Me Better, than even I do Myself? As the Phase implies, Our Lives all seem too follow a Given River? or Course.

[@noahsdove5479]

Izaak Walton - author of "The Complete Angler" "Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration." "God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." Show less

[@antoniomora1255]

He leído 'El Perfecto Pescador de Caña " de Izaak Walton varias veces desde que era un niño y me ha encantado esta cita del libro que usted ha reproducido. También he visto esta magnifica película varias veces y se me saltan las lágrimas con su final magistral: " y algunas de esas palabras son las de ellos "

[@shawneldridge9312]

don't know what's better---a river runs through it 25th anniversary and other stores book or a river runs through it movie. i will say the book has lots more stories in it. hopefully they turn the other stories that's in the book into a movie or two.

[@tonymystery6125]

Absolutely

[@RIVERSIDE118]

NARRATOR ROBERT REDFORD!!!!

[@craigdeandean4036]

I do believe that Robert Redford is the Leonardo da Vinci of film.Does it get any better than this? I don’t think so.

[@w9gb]

Sadly, Norman passed a few months before Robert Redford could show him the film.

[@albertomontano1225]

I am haunted by waters...

[@BROKENVessel-z5n]

If yall like fishing yall mite like this suggestion on a book. Called The River Y.

[@sadeaton]

The greatest testament to Norman was that he made it out of Chicago alive.

[@dajosee]

What do you mean? He lived in Chicago for 45 years instructing at the University of Chicago. He died in Chicago as well.

[@sylviacollier7477]

can anyone tell me what the poem is the father is reading in his room

[@Three_Rivers_Adventure]

One of my all time favorite movies!!! I just just a teenager when it first came out on film and now that I'm 46 the movie seem to hit differently. Especially this end speech.

[@flowstate6452]

❤️✝️

[@shawneldridge4465]

(( 📖 )) I had the 25th anniversary of a river runs through it and other stories book. which by the way, it wasn't a bad book to read. I actually like the movie better, although I do not like the way they changed things in movie. Plus there was some parts that they had left out when they did the movie too. I know when they do movies, it's different compared to the book or books. Still a wonderful movie to watch and yes I have it on dvd. I just wish that they made the other stories in the book into movies as well. Just saying it'd be nice to see how those other stories would turn out as movies.

[@mikecheever6437]

Yall missed the ending hit me m Up

[@chriszablocki2460]

Sometimes when you win the poker game, you just get killed in the parking lot anyway. 🤔🤷‍♂️

[@chriszablocki2460]

The truth hurts.

[@Jimmy-x4v]

"You can love completely without understanding completely". This punched me in the stomach. This film got to me in a way that people have not. I cried like a baby. What does that say about our society (or maybe, about me)? Elegant and genius writing.