These Brothers Couldn’t Be More Different…
Yet the River Unites Them

Stars Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, Tom Skerritt, and Emily Lloyd. From World War I to the start of the Great Depression, this heart-wrenching autobiographical story follows the coming of age of two Montana brothers into adulthood, their loves, their passion for fly fishing, their faults, the choices they make, and the consequences that follow.

Growing up, level-headed Norman Maclean, his more spirited brother Paul, and their minister father, John, often go fly fishing. The river is a bonding, spiritual experience. Homeschooled by their father, the brothers were held to strict behavioral rules and a rigid moral code.

As the boys grow into young adults, Norman takes the safe route in life—college, and a secure career as a professor. Paul, the more adventurous of the two, becomes an investigative reporter with a newspaper in Helena. If digging into nefarious doings wasn’t dangerous enough, Paul has developed a drinking habit, and addiction to gambling. He is in deep debt to some unsavory and vicious thugs.

After six years at Dartmouth College, Norman returns home. He learns of Paul’s situation, but is rebuffed when he offers to help him financially. Still the boys take solace in fishing with their father, Paul having become an expert fly fisherman over the years. Norman meets and falls in love with Jessie, whose own brother is an alcoholic. Paul takes up with Mabel, an equally hard drinking Cheyenne woman, whose dignity he defends in a brawl that lands him in jail. But always, they return to the river, the rod and the reel. When Norman receives a job offer in Chicago, he asks Paul to join him and Jessie. Paul’s debts are piling up, and the gangsters want what’s owed them.

Can Paul leave the river that means so much to him, his aging parents, a job he enjoys, for a fresh start? The river will decide his destiny.

A heartfelt story of brotherly love and loss…Watch the trailer…