William Hurt and Amber Heard have joined Zach Gilford in "
The River Why," an adaptation of the 1983 Sierra Club novel by David James Duncan. Matt Leutwyler is directing.
The coming-of-age tale centers on a young man named Gus Orviston (Gilford) and his quest for an elusive rainbow trout, which is a metaphor for the man's internal search for self-knowledge.