He’s overweight, and his status as a recovering alcoholic is a bit questionable. But he’s in Olympian shape compared with the careening wreck of Stephen, who tumbles off the plane in New Hampshire looking like a diabetic hobo. Stephen hasn’t been heard from for decades, not since the duo had a youthful falling out while traveling in Europe.īill hasn’t been much of a hiker for a good 30 years or so. No one else is tempted to sign on, however, until out of the blue, Bill gets a call from fellow Iowa native Stephen Katz (Nolte), who invites himself along. She insists that at least he not travel alone. With his grandkids coming of age and peers dying off, Bill (Redford) here worries he’s losing his mojo with little time to spare ergo his very random decision to hike the 2,200-mile trail, a determined whim that his English wife, Cathy (Emma Thompson), considers foolish and dangerous at his age. The appeal of the cast names and the equally venerable scenic vistas should lure older audiences, though whether they’ll get out to theaters or wait for home-format delivery is an open question. Like that mildly amusing travel-memoir-cum-elongated-humor-column, there’s light diversion but little substance in this tale of two grumpy old men making a predictable hash of their effort to hike the Appalachian Trail. Robert Redford and Nick Nolte go for “ A Walk in the Woods” in Ken Kwapis’ broad, bland adaptation of Bill Bryson’s 1998 tome.
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