MY dad looks like ...

Years ago I watched the video of A River Runs Through It, based on Norman Maclean's book mentioned below. I remember that I was waiting for something, maybe it was a bus, somewhere and staring at the movie poster in a video shop window, deciding that I wanted to see it. So I rented it out, took it home and my Mum, my older sister and I watched it. At some point in the film my Mum remarked that the younger brother in the film looked rather like my Dad. There is one particular scene that I recall, near the end, where he is walking beside a road and a car drives past and he waves. That shot and those movements looked particularly like my Dad, apparently. So we checked the credits at the end of the film – never heard of that actor. Fast forward fifteen years and Mark Tredinnick is reading an excerpt from the book A River Runs Through It at the Faithful Writer's conference and he says as an aside "the movie wasn't bad - probably the best thing Brad Pitt ever did". My head snapped up as I heard and absorbed that – Brad Pitt! Then I grinned to myself over the realisation that all those years ago my family and I had sat around likening my Dad to Brad Pitt.

So, I dug out an old photo, to look at it with fresh and critical eyes (now that we all know and have seen plenty of Brad Pitt) and see if we were dreaming. What do you think?