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Into the Wild
Directed by
Sean Penn
R
2007
2h 28m
Adventure
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8.0
83%
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After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
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Cast of Into the Wild
Emile Hirsch
Christopher McCandless / Alexander Supertramp
Marcia Gay Harden
Billie McCandless
William Hurt
Walt McCandless
Jena Malone
Carine McCandless / Additional Narration (voice)
Brian H. Dierker
Rainey
Catherine Keener
Jan Burres
Vince Vaughn
Wayne Westerberg
Kristen Stewart
Tracy Tatro
Hal Holbrook
Ronald "Ron" Franz
Thure Lindhardt
Mads
Signe Egholm Olsen
Sonja
Jim Gallien
Jim Gallien
James J. O'Neill
Graduation Reader
Malinda McCollum
Waitress
Paul Knauls
Building Manager
Zach Galifianakis
Kevin
Craig Mutsch
Wayne's Crew #1
Jim Beidler
Wayne's Crew #2
John Decker
Hutterite #1
John Hofer
Hutterite #2
Into the Wild Ratings & Reviews
Blender
David Fear
Anyone who's read Jon Krakauer's best-selling nonfiction account knows the details, but actually seeing McCandless's travels is still thrilling. Yet... are we supposed to salute this foray into the wild or shake our heads at the sheer idiocy?
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
Penn's main idea about going native is making eye contact with a deer.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Hirsch, who carries the film on his increasingly emaciated shoulders, performs heroically, but there's an edge missing.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
I walked away from Into the Wild feeling that Penn was too in love with the idea of Christopher McCandless the free-spirited hero to excavate the soul of Christopher McCandless the lost man.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
Without diminishing the deep transcendentalist yearnings of its young hero, Into the Wild builds to a climax of profound human connectedness, profound human pain.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Into the Wild takes your heart and shakes it, offering inspiration, exasperation and blunt realization in a true story of one young man's dream and nightmare.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
It's a beautiful, big, sorrowful film that manages to celebrate America while reexamining what it has stood for and what it has become.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
It is we who are made a little more complete for wrestling with, and watching, Penn's film.
The New Yorker
David Denby
Sean Penn's Into the Wild is certainly visual -- it's entirely too visual, to the point of being cheaply lyrical.
UGO
Brian Tallerico
Penn hits too many of his thematic nails square on the head, never trusting that his audience is intelligent enough to get his message without all of that bold-facing and underlining.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Beautifully structured and performed.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
In its expansive spirit of investigation and embrace of life as a creative act, Into the Wild comes as close as any picture ever made to capturing the America that Jack Kerouac discovered half a century ago.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This is one of those movies I can imagine deciding is a masterpiece in a month's time. And by any measure, "Into the Wild" is a big leap forward for Penn as a director and deserves to be one of the most talked about films of the season.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Sean Penn's spellbinding film adaptation of this book stays close to the source.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Sequences are gorgeously filmed by cinematographer Eric Gautier, and they're heady with the joy of discovery -- they make you want to hit the road into the magnificent landscape we forget is out there.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It's [Penn's] warmest, most celebratory and most completely realized film and, though you might not guess it from the material, it is also arguably his most personal.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
As actor and director, Penn long has been drawn to the existential and elemental. Life and death. Remorse and revenge. All these themes converge -- symphonically -- in Into the Wild, his most fully realized work as a director.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
though it's easy to dismiss McCandless' hippified musings and near-suicidal choices as the misguided actions of a kid who read Walden a little too closely in college, Penn's film aims for something more, a deeper telling of a tale of yearning and escape.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
A murky screenplay leaves most of the humans ciphers, save for Hal Holbrook in an exquisitely calibrated performance as the avuncular desert retiree whose advice McCandless should have heeded.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
If Into the Wild falls short of giving McCandless an indelible cinematic life, the film gets under your skin anyway. It doesn't feel improvised, exactly, but it does feel inhabited.
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