A Walk in the Woods Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

An aging travel writer sets out to hike the 2,100 mile Appalachian Trail with his long-estranged high school buddy.

Plot

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Plot

In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (Academy Award winner Robert Redford), instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife (Academy Award winner Emma Thompson), and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek - his long lost and former friend Katz (Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte), a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer who, after a lifetime of relying on his charm and wits to keep one step ahead of the law – sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before its too late. The trouble is, the two have a completely different definition of the word, "adventure". Now they're about to find out that when you push yourself to the edge, the real fun begins.

Cited as official plot version from broadgreen.com

Adventure Comedy Drama

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in A Walk in the Woods.

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  Robert Redford

  ... Bill Bryson

  Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Pete's Dragon

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  Nick Nolte

  ... Katz

  Angel Has Fallen, Tropic Thunder

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  Kristen Schaal

  ... Mary Ellen

  Seal Team, My Spy The Eternal City

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  Emma Thompson

  Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Beauty and the Beast

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  Mary Steenburgen

  ... Jeannie

  The Proposal, Step Brothers

Crew Behind the Film

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The film's director Ken Kwapis last directed Big Miracle and He's Just Not That Into You. The film's writer Bill Holderman last wrote Book Club: The Next Chapter and Book Club.

Director

Ken Kwapis

Screenwriter

Bill Holderman

Producer

Robert Redford

Production Details

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Production Updates for A Walk in the Woods

Apr 2015

Completed

Changed A Walk in the Woods movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

Jun 2011

Development

Changed the movie production status to Development. The movie is likely in scripting, budgeting, or stuck in "development hell."

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