into the wild
- Release Date
- September 11, 2007
- Director
- Sean Penn
- Cast
- Emile Hirsch , Marcia Gay Harden , William Hurt , Jena Malone , Brian H. Dierker , Catherine Keener
- Runtime
- 150
- Main Genre
- Adventure
- Studio
- Paramount Vantage
- Writers
- Sean Penn , Jon Krakauer
- Tagline
- Into the heart. Into the soul.
- Website
- http://IntoTheWild.com
Summary
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, 22 year-old Christopher McCandless (EMILE HIRSCH) instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people. Was Christopher McCandless a heroic adventurer or a naïve idealist, a rebellious 1990s Thoreau or another lost American son, a fearless risk-taker or a tragic figure who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature? Each strand of his journey is woven into Sean Penn's screen adaptation of Jon Krakauer's acclaimed bestseller, Into the Wild, which is as much about the insatiable yearning for family, home and connection as it is the search for truth and happiness. McCandless' quest took him from the wheat fields of South Dakota to a renegade trip down the Colorado River to the non-conformists' refuge of Slab City, California, and beyond. Along the way, he encountered a series of colorful characters at the very edges of American society who shaped his understanding of life and whose lives he, in turn, changed. In the end, he tested himself by heading alone into the wilds of the great North, where everything he had seen and learned and felt came to a head in ways he never could have expected.
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