Fishing, that narrative centrepoint of classical male bonding, beer drinking, and to a lesser extent, catching fish, is what's at play here, in Andrew Hamilton's affable telling of life's simple pleasures and the minor kind of redemption that remembering them offers.
Two guys, city mouse/country mouse types who have grown apart and alienated from both each other and their formative years, talk women, growth charts, and disappointment, as a chance meeting takes them back to their childhood fishing hole, and the inevitable rises to the surface.
With an easygoing Canuckian approach to observing friendships, and some blunt but sweet life lessoning, Catch and Release will console those with a heavy heart, or crappy bait.
User Review
Corny but endearing