Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 09/21/07 (LA & NY) 10/19/07 (St. Louis) Home Video 03/04/08 MPAA Rating Rated R for language and some nudity Running Time 2 hours Genre Drama Director Sean Penn Writer Sean Penn Cast Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Catherine Keener, Kristen Stewart, Zach Galifianakis Studio Paramount Vantage |
INTO THE WILD (2007)
SYNOPSIS
Freshly graduated from college with a promising
future ahead, 22 year-old Christopher McCandless
(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 with the
precarious balance between man and nature?
Each strand of his journey is woven into 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.
.--©Paramount Vantage
Freshly graduated from college with a promising
future ahead, 22 year-old Christopher McCandless
(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 with the
precarious balance between man and nature?
Each strand of his journey is woven into 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.
.--©Paramount Vantage
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