Robert Redford can make a poignant, visually stunning film, and one of his finest examples is A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT.  It's the story of two fly-fishing brothers coming of age in 1920s Montana, told in the form of a memoir by older brother Norman Maclean (Craig Sheffer).  Norman is a deep thinker, the complete opposite of his kid brother Paul (this was Brad Pitt's film career launching pad), who is rambunctious, rebellious, and ultimately self-destructive.  While both brothers rebel against their stern minister father (brilliantly played by Tom Skerritt), Norman manages to get a college degree from back east and contemplate leaving his home state, while Paul is in and out of trouble and constantly running up gambling debts.  Yet the brothers bond by fly fishing; it is a mutual commonality that defines their closeness and love.  These fishing sequences are some of the most compelling scenes in the film, and Redford delivers the vistas magnificently.