Into The Wild
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to explore the beauty and wonder of the world. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
17 February 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1 November 1931, Shelburne Falls, Vermont, USA
14 August 1959, La Jolla, California, USA
23 March 1959, Miami, Florida, USA
11 August 1980, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
28 March 1970, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
9 May 1980, Århus, Denmark
26 March 1992, Collin, Texas, USA
January2000, Portland, Oregon, USA
March 27, 2011
Crafting his meditation on the men who answer the call of the wild, Sean Penn's adaptation is heavy on mood and ambiance but sadly lacking in depth, giving up on the wider comparisons to focus fully on McCandless, who may not be up to the scrutiny.
February 22, 2008
Penn's main idea about going native is making eye contact with a deer.
October 05, 2007
Without diminishing the deep transcendentalist yearnings of its young hero, Into the Wild builds to a climax of profound human connectedness, profound human pain.
February 09, 2011
It's a bit heavy-handed, but ultimately a rewarding watch.
May 22, 2016
Sean Penn's adaptation of Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book is a bracing cinematic plunge into the odyssey of Christopher McCandless.
October 18, 2008
As [Hirsch] struggles with the elements, his increasing frailty and the cinematography's increasing grandeur mesh in a way that's at once iconic and wrenching.
November 08, 2007
The photography is of the sort you'd find in any half decent nature documentary, with cloying emphasis placed firmly (and sometimes clumsily) on the idea that our neglectful, selfish and not to mention rampantly capitalist ways are destroying the planet.
April 05, 2011
Every once in awhile, a movie will come outta nowhere and blow your socks off.
July 06, 2010
An uplifting and enriching cautionary tale about one man's spiritual adventure on the road and in the wilderness.
October 05, 2007
The movie tries its hardest to celebrate the impetuousness of its hero and the exhilaration of his accomplishments. Mostly, though, it just reminds you of the severity of his mistakes.
September 23, 2010
Even in its harrowing final moments, it reaches a spiritually transcendent pinnacle - the idea of ending one long, strange trip and plummeting into an even-greater unknown with both fear and elation. A stirring American drama of comfort and conflict.
November 01, 2007
Hirsch, who carries the film on his increasingly emaciated shoulders, performs heroically, but there's an edge missing.
