A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 13 wins & 69 nominations total
- Joe
- (as Ray Mist)
- Therapist
- (as Randy Schulman)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe young Cheryl is portrayed by Cheryl Strayed's daughter Bobbi Strayed Lindstrom.
- GoofsThe 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 creditsThere are photos of the real Cheryl Strayed on her actual walk shown during the credits.
- SoundtracksEl 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
At first Cheryl seems like a woman unable to let go of her now ex-husband, beginning a journey with more baggage than is necessary. It might almost be easy to throw this story into the bin of sappy chick-flicks when that inability to get closure on a relationships end is actually fronting as more of an act of remorse and regret. She messed up. And there is no way to repair the damage without an ugly scar.
The further she goes the more she dives into the series of events that lead her to such a devastating circumstance of sex and drugs. The loss of her mother is far too much for her to feel. The depth of such pain can sometimes strip a human being from feeling anything at all. The tears flow from her face but those tears are not falling for grief, they drop from the overwhelming numbing the death has caused.
Cheryl's emotions are lost in a wild and desolate space that is pain and grief, which is so perfectly mirrored with the vast, open landscape she is now physically wondering through. And both her emotions and the land are the same: it wont change immediately and things will be tough but if one keeps going forward one will come out of it. And better for it. Cheryl just needed that physical aspect to make the connection with her emotions. The self-loathing and destructive life she was living was the equivalence of her just lying down on the sandy path and dying right there.
It's a fairly event-less film where a woman just goes through some fairly tough terrain but somehow the flashes to her past spliced in with the turmoil of her present moves the story along swimmingly.
If you're a fan of deeply emotional story lines this one might very well be worth the watch.
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- Also known as
- Alma salvaje
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Box office
- 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
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1