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Wild

  • 20142014
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  • 1h 55m
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Reese Witherspoon in Wild (2014)
A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent catastrophe.
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A chronicle of one woman's one thousand one hundred mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.A chronicle of one woman's one thousand one hundred mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.A chronicle of one woman's one thousand one hundred mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
128K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,794
608
  • Director
    • Jean-Marc Vallée
  • Writers
    • Nick Hornby(screenplay by)
    • Cheryl Strayed(memoir "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail")
  • Stars
    • Reese Witherspoon
    • Laura Dern
    • Gaby Hoffmann
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  • Director
    • Jean-Marc Vallée
  • Writers
    • Nick Hornby(screenplay by)
    • Cheryl Strayed(memoir "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail")
  • Stars
    • Reese Witherspoon
    • Laura Dern
    • Gaby Hoffmann
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    • 344User reviews
    • 363Critic reviews
    • 74Metascore
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    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 13 wins & 69 nominations total

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    Reese Witherspoon
    Reese Witherspoon
    • Cherylas Cheryl
    Laura Dern
    Laura Dern
    • Bobbias Bobbi
    Gaby Hoffmann
    Gaby Hoffmann
    • Aimeeas Aimee
    Michiel Huisman
    Michiel Huisman
    • Jonathanas Jonathan
    Thomas Sadoski
    Thomas Sadoski
    • Paulas Paul
    Keene McRae
    Keene McRae
    • Leifas Leif
    W. Earl Brown
    W. Earl Brown
    • Frankas Frank
    Kevin Rankin
    Kevin Rankin
    • Gregas Greg
    Brian Van Holt
    Brian Van Holt
    • Rangeras Ranger
    Cliff De Young
    Cliff De Young
    • Edas Ed
    Mo McRae
    Mo McRae
    • Jimmy Carteras Jimmy Carter
    Will Cuddy
    Will Cuddy
    • Joshas Josh
    Leigh Parker
    Leigh Parker
    • Rickas Rick
    Nick Eversman
    Nick Eversman
    • Richieas Richie
    Ray Buckley
    Ray Buckley
    • Joeas Joe
    • (as Ray Mist)
    Randy Schulman
    Randy Schulman
    • Therapistas Therapist
    Cathryn de Prume
    Cathryn de Prume
    • Staceyas Stacey
    Kurt Conroyd
    Kurt Conroyd
    • Greg's Friendas Greg's Friend
    • Director
      • Jean-Marc Vallée
    • Writers
      • Nick Hornby(screenplay by)
      • Cheryl Strayed(memoir "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail")
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    • Trivia
      The young Cheryl is portrayed by Cheryl Strayed's daughter Bobbi Strayed Lindstrom.
    • Goofs
      The film is set in 1995 (see the Jerry Garcia death newspaper headline) yet Cheryl is reading Gone Girl (published in 2012). This is a cross-promotion for the Reese Witherspoon-produced Gone Girl (2014).
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Cheryl: [voiceover] It took me years to be the woman my mother raised. It took me 4 years, 7 months and 3 days to do it, without her. After I lost myself in the wilderness of my grief, I found my own way out of the woods.

      [pause]

      Cheryl: And I didn't even know where I was going until I got there, on the last day of my hike. Thankyou, I thought over and over again, for everything the trail had taught me and everything I couldn't yet know.

      [pause]

      Cheryl: Now in 4 years, I'd cross this very bridge. I'll marry a man in a spot almost visible from where I was standing. Now in 9 years, that man and I would have a son named Carver and a year later, a daughter named after my mother, Bobbi. I knew only that I didn't need to eat with my bare hands anymore. That seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water would be enough, that it was everything. My life, like all lives, mysterious, irrevocable, sacred, so very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be?

    • Crazy credits
      There are photos of the real Cheryl Strayed on her actual walk shown during the credits.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Reese Witherspoon/David Sedaris/Rae Sremmurd (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
      Written by Paul Simon, Jorge Milchberg & Daniel Alomía Robles

      Performed by Simon & Garfunkel

      Also Performed by Reese Witherspoon (uncredited)

      Courtesy of Columbia Records

      By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

    User reviews344

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    Top review
    7/10
    #Reese Witherspoon stripped bare & exposed on a journey to find a reason to live
    When Cheryl Strayed's (Reese Witherspoon) life has a good go at crashing and burning, largely due to her own poor decisions, she packs a rucksack and takes a 1,000 mile walk along the Pacific Crest Trail to, as she puts it, "find out how to become the girl my mother loved." Alone and woefully ill prepared for the trek, both physically and emotionally, hers is a journey through an unforgiving landscape of discovery, pain and hope.

    Adapted by Nick Hornby from Cheryl Strayed's own biographical account of her journey, Wild: From Lost to Found On the Pacific Crest Trail, and directed my Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club), Wild is the darker sibling of 2010's The Way. But whereas The Way was a gentle, almost spiritual journey of a man making a conscious decision to complete his son's failed trek, Wild is a desperate attempt by a floundering woman to claw back something resembling life and peace.

    Though Reese Witherspoon won her Oscar for Walk the Line, I don't believe she has ever been better than here, stripped bare, exposed and raw. And, no, I'm not talking about the nudity or sex scenes. If you find those remotely titillating you have a serious issue with emotional connection. She has wiped off the make up, torn off the happy-go-lucky girl-next door persona that has carried her through countless rom-coms and hammered us with a performance that makes us want to shake her fiercely one moment and hug her the next.

    Vallée has crafted a touching film that doesn't shy away from the harsh realities of heroin, promiscuity and a twitching finger that frequently hits the self-destruct button. But whilst Vallée implies the level of unpleasantness in in Cheryl's life, he avoids laboring the point, largely through the use of quickly edited flashbacks and segues from present to various pasts. It is a device that keeps us onside but is also the biggest failing with Wild.

    There are too many hints that are not fully explained, too many avenues glanced at but not fully explored. Occasionally there are scenes, particularly the frogs on the seeping bag, that were presumably significant in Strayed's book but are left dangling so as to be almost irrelevant. Cheryl's relationship with her brother is left as an unexplored afterthought and there is altogether too much unfinished business. The conclusion, which should give hope or at least a sense of satisfaction, is rattled though and lost as if Vallée is anxious to attain a sub-two-hour film at all costs.

    But despite the niggles, Wild is a film of starkness and beauty with vistas that are breathtaking and pander to the wanderlust that bubbles fiercely just below the surface of this particular viewer.

    I need a copy of the soundtrack and I need to walk for a very long time.

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 19, 2014 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Дика
    • Filming locations
      • Crater Lake, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, USA
    • Production companies
      • Bob Industries
      • Fox Searchlight Pictures
      • Pacific Standard
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $15,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $37,880,356
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $606,810
      • Dec 7, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $52,501,541
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 55 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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