This is a film I love to watch during the cold months of the year.  It is so beautifully filmed by Robert Redford that you can almost feel the sunlight, hear the flies buzzing around you and sense of the cold water of a mountain stream.  The casting was also excellent for this film, though Norman's wife, Jessie, is played a bit too inaccessible by Emily Lloyd.  The supporting cast was well-played, actor Tom Skeritt is wonderful, as usual, playing the preacher father and Brenda Blethyn is reliably strong as Mrs. Maclean.  Brad Pitt is luminous and exudes the beauty of the popular and youthful brother, Paul, whose end is tragic.  Craig Sheffer's character, Norman, is the center of the story and he tells it well.  I had read the book after I saw the film, years ago, and wasn't a fan of the writing style in the telling of this true story, but the film stayed with me so I wanted to see it in Blu-Ray.  It's still haunting.