Nolte and Redford face the end of the road at the beginning of the trail.

A Walk in the Woods, Ken Kwapis’ featherweight adaptation of Bill Bryson’s 1998 memoir about his attempt to hike then Appalachian Trail, should come with a disclaimer.

Something like: “The characters played by Robert Redford and Nick Nolte in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to persons living — say, Bryson and his Falstaffian pal, Stephen Katz — is purely coincidental.

It’s pleasant in a Grumpy Old Bucket List kind of way, with Redford and Nolte, a kind of woodsy Odd Couple, as septuagenarians rediscovering America and their friendship. Here’s what I said about it. It’s no Harry & Tonto or Going in Style. But then, what is?

In the admittedly small genre of end-of-the-road films, what are your favorites? Why?