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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097363481249
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 04, 2008
Running Time: 148 minutes
Sales Rank: 358
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 21, 2007
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Product Description:
This is the true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch). Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people -- a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature.System Requirements:Running Time: 148 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/COMING OF AGE Rating: R UPC: 097363481249 Manufacturer No: 348124
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A superb cast and an even-handed treatment of a true story buoy Into the Wild, Sean Penn's screen adaptation of Jon Krakauer's bestselling book. Emile Hirsch stars as Christopher McCandless, scion of a prosperous but troubled family who, after graduating from Atlanta's Emory University in the early 1990s, decides to chuck it all and become a self-styled 'aesthetic voyager' in search of 'ultimate freedom.' He certainly doesn't do it halfway: after donating his substantial savings account to charity and literally torching the rest of his cash, McCandless changes his name (to 'Alexander Supertramp'), abandons his family (William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden as his bickering, clueless parents and Jena Malone as his baffled but loving sister, who relates much of the backstory in voice-over), and hits the road, bound for the Alaskan bush and determined not to be found. For the next two years he lives the life of a vagabond, working a few odd jobs, kayaking through the Grand Canyon into Mexico, landing on L.A.'s Skid Row, and turning his back on everyone who tried to befriends him (including Catherine Keener and Brian Dierker as two kindly, middle-aged hippies and Hal Holbrook in a deeply affecting performance as an old widower who tries to take 'Alex' under his wing). Penn, who directed and wrote the screenplay, alternates these interludes with scenes depicting McCandless' Alaskan idyll--which soon turns out be not so idyllic after all. Settling into an abandoned school bus, he manages to sustain himself for a while, shooting small game (and one very large moose), reading, and recording his existential musings on paper. But when the harsh realities of life in the wilderness set in, our boy finds himself well out of his depth, not just ill-prepared for the rigors of day to day survival but realizing the importance of the very thing he wanted to escape--namely, human relationships. It'd be easy to either idealize McCandless as a genuinely free spirit, unencumbered by the societal strictures that tie the rest of us down, or else dismiss him as a hopelessly callow naïf, a fool whose disdain for practical realities ultimately doomed him. Into the Wild does neither, for the most part telling the tale with an admirable lack of cheap sentiment and leaving us to decide for ourselves. --Sam Graham
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Rating:  - just awful!
Chris is of those people who have had everything handed to him on a silver platter. He graduates from college with honors, no debt and $25,000 left in his college fund account. When his parents offer to put him through Harvard Law and buy him a new car he has a tantrum claiming that he wants nothing to do with their materialistic ways and donates his $25,000 to charity. He runs off to hitchhike and live off the kindness of strangers for a number of months (they feed him, clothe him, employ him, he ... Read More
Rating: - Into The Self Indulgent
"Into the Wild" provided nothing more than the story of a boy in a man's body. Idealistic, self indulgent, inexperienced and incapable of coping with the vicissitudes of real life, he ventures into the wild. Before doing that he sends twenty-four thousand dollars to charity and burns his pocket money. Then he becomes a drifter, dependent on others, having to earn money to get supplies to go into the wild. Not sensible. Once in the wild, he lives in an abandoned bus, murders an innocent moose he doesn't ... Read More
Rating:  - Best Film of the Decade
There's not much to criticize in this film, it's almost flawless, a seamless piece of art. It's the composite of the True story of Christopher McCandles, The Jon Krakauer novel, the screen play directed by Sean Penn and the sound track By Eddie Vedder. I've never heard a better cohesiveness between a soundtrack and a screenplay than in this movie, it's haunting. Sean Penn uses a chapter format sequence for the movie in the sense of the Krakauer novel and the literary prowess and potential of McCandles himself ... Read More
Rating: - boring
This movie is soooo slowww, with nothing really going on. I found it boring and turned it off after 30 minutes.
Rating: - An existential odyssey
Into the Wild will not be to everyone's liking.Some people will dislike the protagonist, Christopher McCandless, and others will find the movie's pacing to be slow.Yet, I was fascinated by and even a little envious of Chris's dogged attempt to find meaning in life and his disregard for other people's expectations.Like the ascetic monks who would wander into the desert to find enlightenment, Chris was determined to find the answers to spiritual questions by renouncing all worldly things and, ultimately, all ... Read More
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