Into the Wild
Released
- 2007
Director
Stars
Into the Wild is a 2007 American drama film by Sean Penn based on the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. The film stars Emile Hirsch, William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden. The film premiered during the Rome Film Fest and later opened outside of Fairbanks, Alaska in September 2007. In 1990, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a college graduate from Emory University, rejects a materialist, conventional life, and his parents Walt (William Hurt) and Billie McCandless (Marcia Gay Harden), who McCandless perceives as having betrayed him. McCandless destroys all of his credit cards and identification documents, donates $24,000 (nearly his entire savings) to Oxfam, and sets out on a cross-country drive in his well-used, but reliable Datsun toward his ultimate goal: Alaska, to experience life in the wilderness. However, McCandless does not tell his family nor his sister Carine, (Jena Malone), what he is doing or where he is going and does not communicate with them thereafter, leaving them to become increasingly anxious and eventually desperate. Along the way his automobile is caught in a flash flood and he abandons it to
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The movie ended on the slow side, but overall I thought that it was an extremely touching story that was well worth the watch.
October 15, 2008 at 1:59 p.m. UTC
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