Released By:	Universal Pictures
Year:	1992
Director:	Phil Alden Robinson
Screenplay:	Phil Alden Robinson, Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker

Robert Redford as Martin Bishop

Sidney Poitier as Donald Crease

David Strathairn as Whistler

Dan Aykroyd as Mother

River Phoenix as Carl Arbogast

Mary McDonnell as Liz

Ben Kingsley as Cosmo

When River did not get the part in Robert Redford's appropriately titled movie A River Runs Through It, he was looking forward to this, another opportunity to work with Redford on the big-budget Sneakers. This movie would also allow River to be reunited with friend, mentor and co-star from Little Nikita, Sidney Poitier.

Unfortunately, disillusionment would soon set in and River urged his friends not to go and watch it. "I trashed myself in this. I will never appear in a teen magazine again. I've really degraded myself."

Describing the role of Carl Arbogast as a part he took to please his agent, River said, "I play this cyberpunk nerd, just full on. He's very hyper, always twitching, the kind of guy you avoid playing if you want to walk with grace and dignity at the premiere. I'm going to, like.... I'm not going to go!"

It would be whilst staying in Flea's Los Angeles house during the making of this movie that River first met Abby Gorton. During the Christmas break, he would once again stay with his close confidant Bill Richert, director of A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.

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