Storyline
The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Directors
Cast
Kristen Stewart, Emile Hirsch, Zach Galifianakis, Jena Malone, Haley Sweet, William Hurt, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Robin Mathews, R. D. Call, Marcia Gay Harden, Hal Holbrook, Haley Ramm, Thure Lindhardt, Brian H. Dierker, Signe Egholm Olsen, Cheryl Francis Harrington, Steven Wiig, Bryce Walters, Merritt Wever, John Jabaley, Leonard Knight, Timothy Levine, Parris Mosteller, J. Nathan Simmons
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Reviews
91
The beauty of Into the Wild, which Penn has written and directed with magnificent precision and imaginative grace, is that what Christopher is running from is never as important as what he's running TO.
91
The A.V. Club
There's a bittersweet quality to McCandless' story that Penn captures intuitively.
90
Village Voice
To these eyes, Into the Wild is an unusually soulful and poetic movie that crystallizes McCandless in all his glittering enigma, and allows us to decide for ourselves whether he was the spiritual son of Thoreau, Tolstoy, and John Muir, or the boy most likely to become Theodore Kaczynski.
88
Into the Wild is a beautifully made motion picture and some of the segments (especially those with Hal Holbrook and those that transpire around "the magic bus" in Alaska) are powerful.
88
Rolling Stone
Penn, in tandem with the superb cinematographer Eric Gautier (The Motorcycle Diaries), captures the majesty and terror of the wilderness in ways that make you catch your breath.
