Robert Redford's Quest for Truth and Learning Lessons From All the President's Men
It was Redford's 1976 feature that made all of us care about the truth.
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Robert Redford means something different to every movie fan.
For some he’s Hubbell, Barbra Streisand’s starcrossed love interest in The Way We Were. Or maybe he’s real-life writer Denys Finch Hatton playing opposite Meryl Streep in Out of Africa. Movie fans of the 1990s likely saw Indecent Proposal or The Horse Whisperer in theaters. Reach back to the 60s, and he’s a frequent love interest for Natalie Wood and then Jane Fonda. He’s the most charming conman in The Sting. He’s the ultimate Great Gatsby (sorry, Leo). Many might remember that awards buzz from 2013’s one-man-show All is Lost, or perhaps true film enthusiasts first think of Ordinary People and the beauty of his quiet, yet unrelenting directorial hand.
