Legends of the Fall
Year: | 1994 |
Production Co: | Bedford Falls Productions |
Director: | Edward Zwick |
Producer: | Edward Zwick |
Cast: | Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas |
He turns around in a field of flowers, long hair in the breeze, butterflies and insects buzzing happily around, flashing his winning grin and resplendent in his suit.
He was the focal point for this sprawling family epic where three brothers (Pitt, Thomas and Quinn) grow up under the loving guidance of an ageing father (Hopkins) in a beautiful farmhouse in the mountains at the turn of the 19th century.
The story isn't terribly thematic apart from chronicling their lives, loves, the tragedies of chance and everything between the loss of innocence and death, but in true soap opera style, you care about these people simply from the wealth of information you learn about them.