Into the Wild
Into the Wild
Starring Emile Hirsch and Marcia Gay Hayden
Rated R
Biographical Drama
Into the Wild is writer/director Sean Penn’s adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a nonfiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of a young Virginia man, who divorces himself from his friends, family, and possessions in search of a greater spiritual knowledge and communion with nature. Upon his 1990 graduation from Emory University in Atlanta, Christopher McCandless walks away from a loving his dysfunctional family and sends his nearly 25,000-dollar life savings to Oxfam International. Instead of the normal life his parents planned for him, Chris rechristens himself “Alexander Supertramp” and heads west in his beaten-up automobile until it no longer runs, at which point he takes up hitchhiking. The goal on the horizon? Alaska. Meanwhile, his parents (William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden) and sister (Jena Malone) haven’t received so much as a postcard from him, and begin to fear the worst
Released on March 4, 2008
