Seeing A WALK in the WOODS with Robert Redford is Wallowing in Drudgery

Bill Bryson is a best selling author of humorous travel books.  He wrote the screenplay for A WALK in the WOODS and cast his character in the lead role starring Robert Redford. This movie is duller than petrified wood. The humor is moronic, the charm outside of the Appalachians' natural splendor is nowhere to be found. The scenery is the only redeeming quality in a tedious and plodding journey.  Bryson is now at an age when travelling is more laborious than glorious.  Still, Bryson feels the desire to push himself and undertake the rigors of backpacking the Appalachian Trails.  His sensible, loving wife (played by a forlorn Emma Thompson) can't dissuade him but insiststs he be accompanied on this hazzardous, months long trek.  All Bryson's friends possess more common sense (or listen to their wives) and decline his inane invitation.  He receives a call from an old childhood friend, Steve, asking if he could join him.  Nick Nolte plays Steve.  Nolte appears much like he does in his infamous mug shot.  If bad acting were a crime, he'd be arrested.  Nolte plays a doddering lech.  Mary Steenbergen appears in a few scenes; squandering her talent.  The dreadful plot continual takes major missteps.  Redford's lead role in this debacle is the most baffling.  Bryson refers to naturalist John Muir.  Muri said "In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."  Walk away from this smelly waste.  It should get buried.