There’s a simple, old-style TV straightforwardness to Kwapis’s presentation of events. The men had a falling out decades earlier, but Katz is enthusiastic and Bryson would like the company, so what the hell. Turned down by everyone he can think of as a traveling companion, Bryson is then surprised to hear from a voice from the distant past, the gravelly-voiced Katz (Nolte), who’s heard about the expedition and wants to go along. Read more Sundance: 5 Hot-Button Docs Set to Make Waves at the Festival It’s amusing that such an accomplished writer is shown as having such a bad way with words socially, but he does communicate well with his adorable English wife (a splendid Emma Thompson), who’s against her husband’s impulsive decision to undertake the marathon walk (there are justified fears about bears, reptiles and insects and even human killers) but knows well enough not to put up a fight. That screenwriters Rick Kerb and Bill Holderman, as well as director Ken Kwapis, have hit upon the right droll tone is evident from the set-up in the opening scenes, in which Redford, playing Bryson himself, gives an awkward TV interview and then says all the wrong things at a friend’s funeral. TIFF: Breaking Glass, Reel Red Take 'Princess' for U.S.

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