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The Way
Why this pick
Like A Walk in the Woods, it turns a long trek into a warm, gently comic reflection on later-life change, with mismatched companions and scenery that lets emotional moments arrive unforced.
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MOVIE2015 1h 44m USA
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A Perfect Day
Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Author Bill Bryson (Robert Redford), after living for ten years in the UK, returned to New Hampshire. Now in his 60s, he had been living there peacefully for the past twenty years. A television interview reports that he has published several popular books and there is speculation he will be writing more. Bryson, however, has no such plans.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Robert Redford
Bill Bryson
Emma Thompson
Catherine Bryson
Kristen Schaal
Mary Ellen
Chrystee Pharris
Ticket Agent
Sandra Ellis Lafferty
Widow Deborah
Hayley Lovitt
Donna
Derek Krantz
Young Hiker #2
Linds Edwards
Darren