Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, 22-year-old Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) chose instead to walk 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. Was he a heroic adventurer or a naive idealist, a rebellious 1990s Thoreau or another lost American son, a fearless risk-taker or a tragic figure who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature? "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." (Entertainment Weekly) More at intothewild.com 35mm Cinemascope
2007, color, 2 hours 20 minutes, USA