Morgan Freeman-Robert Redford, An
Unfinished Life;
Jennifer Aniston, big
winner at
Sundance 2006 with, Friends
With Money
[Sundance #1:
Indie bread & butter
Roger Ebert]
AN
UNFINISHED LIFE Redford
plays embittered Wyoming rancher Einar Gilkyson, who spends his days
cutting brush and looking after Mitch, his former horse wrangler and best
friend, played by Morgan Freeman, now an invalid after being mauled by a
bear. Einar spends a lot of time drinking, since the untimely loss of his
son in a car accident, and blames his daughter-in-law Jean [Jennifer
Lopez] who was driving.
"God, it was great to play a guy like him,
gone to seed, surly. I put on weight, didn't have to shave or get groomed
every morning, didn't have to smile for the camera. Plus, I had never
played that guy before, but I knew him intimately. You live in the West
long enough, you meet those guys everywhere. Times have changed, and they
don't like it a bit. Some go with the flow, some don't, and this guy
doesn't."
An Unfinished Life was adapted from
a novel by Mark Spragg and since, unlike most of his films in the past 25
years, it was not developed by Redford's Wildwood production company, he
enjoyed the freedom of being an actor for hire. He could have offered a
convincing voice on behalf of the magnificent Wyoming landscape. That
backdrop, reminiscent of The Horse Whisperer, is perfect, in the
terms of the script; the film location is actually Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. His
falcon film has been
suspended, at least for now.
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Directed by Lasse
Hallström 107
min
US release: 9 September
05
2007
