- Director
- Writers
- Nick Hornby(screenplay by)
- Cheryl Strayed(memoir "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail")
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- Director
- Writers
- Nick Hornby(screenplay by)
- Cheryl Strayed(memoir "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail")
- Stars
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 13 wins & 69 nominations total
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- Director
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- Nick Hornby(screenplay by)
- Cheryl Strayed(memoir "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail")
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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
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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- TheSquiss
- Jan 14, 2015
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- Дика
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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
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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