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Into the Wild
Promotional film poster
Directed by	Sean Penn
Produced by	Sean Penn Art Linson
Written by	Jon Krakauer (book) Sean Penn (screenplay)
Starring	Emile Hirsch Marcia Gay Harden William Hurt Jena Malone Catherine Keener Vince Vaughn Hal Holbrook Kristen Stewart
Music by	Michael Brook Kaki King Eddie Vedder
Cinematography	Eric Gautier
Editing by	Jay Cassidy
Distributed by	Paramount Vantage
Release date(s)	September 21, 2007
Running time	148 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$15 million
Gross revenue	$55,635,754[1]

Into the Wild is a 2007 film based on the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. It was directed by Sean Penn, who also wrote the screenplay, and stars Emile Hirsch, Jena Malone, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, William Hurt and Catherine Keener. It premiered during the second edition of the Rome Film Feast. The film premiered outside of Fairbanks, Alaska on September 3, 2007,^[2] and the film was issued in limited release on September 21, before a wide release on October 19.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Filming 4 Critical reception 4.1 Top ten lists 5 Awards 5.1 Wins 5.2 Nominations 6 Box office performance 7 Home video release 8 Soundtrack 9 References 10 External links

[edit] Plot

Into the Wild recounts the life of Christopher McCandless, a real-life student-athlete at Emory University, as told by his sympathetic sister. In response to his parents, whom McCandless perceives as materialistic, manipulative, and domineering, McCandless destroys all of his credit cards and identification documents, donates $24,000 (nearly his entire savings) to Oxfam, and sets out on a cross-country drive in his well-used but reliable Datsun towards his ultimate goal: to travel alone to Alaska and experience its nature firsthand. Along the way, he abandons his automobile in the course of a flash flood, to hitchhike after burning the remainder of his dwindling cash supply. He acquires a Perception Sundance 12 open-water kayak and goes down the Colorado River, into Mexico, and later returns to America via freight train to Los Angeles. Taking a circuitous route, he encounters many unconventional individuals along the way, such as a group of hippies, a farm owner (Vince Vaughn), and a lonely leather worker (Hal Holbrook) who offers to adopt and be a grandfather to McCandless. McCandless purposefully trudges onward to his final destination, arriving in the wilds of Alaska nearly two years after his initial departure. He starts living in a "Magic Bus" (63°52′06.23″N 149°46′09.49″W / 63.8683972°N 149.7693028°W / 63.8683972; -149.7693028Coordinates: 63°52′06.23″N 149°46′09.49″W / 63.8683972°N 149.7693028°W / 63.8683972; -149.7693028),^[3] used as a shelter for moose hunters. McCandless finds joy in living off the land and begins to write a book of his adventures. As the spring thaw arrives and he seeks to return from the wild, McCandless is cut off from civilization by the torrents of a swelled river-- one of his few admitted fears is of water. As his food supply of small game dwindles, he resorts to eating indigenous plants. Although he consults a book that he brought along in order to identify edible plants in the wild, he confuses an edible and a poisonous variety, which shuts down his digestive system and causes him to starve to death. In his final hours, he continues to document his demise in a painful and dramatic denouement.

[edit] Cast

• Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless / "Alexander Supertramp"
• Marcia Gay Harden as Billie McCandless
• William Hurt as Walt McCandless
• Jena Malone as Carine McCandless
• Brian H. Dierker as Rainey
• Catherine Keener as Jan Burres
• Vince Vaughn as Wayne Westerberg
• Kristen Stewart as Tracy Tatro
• Hal Holbrook as Ron Franz
• Zach Galifianakis as Kevin
• Jim Gallien as Himself

[edit] Filming

The scenes of graduation from Emory University in the film were shot in the fall of 2006 on the front lawn of Reed College. Some of the graduation scenes were also filmed during the actual Emory University graduation on May 15, 2006.^[4] The Alaska scenes depicting the area around the abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail were filmed 50 miles south of where McCandless actually died, in the tiny town of Cantwell. Filming at the actual bus would have been too remote for the technical demands of a movie shoot.^[5] The production made four separate trips to Alaska to film during different seasons.

[edit] Critical reception

Into the Wild received strong positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 83% of 155 reviews of the film were positive, resulting in a "Fresh" rating.^[6] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 73 out of 100, based on 38 reviews.^[7]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four and described the film as "spellbinding". Ebert wrote that Emile Hirsch gives a "hypnotic performance", saying: "It is great acting, and more than acting". Ebert said, "The movie is so good partly because it means so much, I think, to its writer-director", Sean Penn.^[8]

The American Film Institute listed the film as an AFI Movie of the Year for 2007.^[9]

National Board of Review named it one of the Top Ten Films of the Year.

Into the Wild also ranks 473rd in Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. ^[10]

[edit] Top ten lists

The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007.^[11]

• 1st - Ben Lyons The Daily 10^[12]
• 2nd - Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post^[11]
• 2nd - Tasha Robinson, The A.V. Club^[11]
• 3rd - James Berardinelli, ReelViews^[11]
• 3rd - Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times^[11]
• 3rd - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone^[13]
• 4th - Kyle Smith, New York Post^[11]
• 5th - Claudia Puig, USA Today^[11]
• 5th - David Germain, Associated Press^[14]
• 5th - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal^[11]
• 6th - Carrie Rickey, The Philadelphia Inquirer^[11]
• 6th - Steven Rea, The Philadelphia Inquirer^[11]
• 7th - A.O. Scott, The New York Times (tied with The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)^[11]
• 7th - Noel Murray, The A.V. Club^[11]
• 9th - Christy Lemire, Associated Press^[14]
• 10th - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times^[11]

[edit] Awards

[edit] Wins

• 65th Golden Globe Awards^[15]
  • Best Original Song - Motion Picture ("Guaranteed")
• Gotham Awards
  • Best Feature Film

• Mill Valley Film Festival
  • Best Actor (Emile Hirsch)

• National Board of Review
  • Breakthrough Performance - Male (Emile Hirsch)

• Palm Springs International Film Festival
  • Director of the Year Award (Sean Penn)
  • Rising Star Award Actor (Emile Hirsch)

• Rome Film Feast
  • Jury Award (William Pohlad), (Art Linson), (Sean Penn)

• São Paulo International Film Festival
  • Best Foreign Language Film (Sean Penn)

[edit] Nominations

• 80th Academy Awards^[16]
  • Best Supporting Actor (Hal Holbrook)
  • Best Film Editing

• 65th Golden Globe Awards^[17]
  • Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Michael Brook, Kaki King, Eddie Vedder)

• American Cinema Editors
  • Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic

• Broadcast Film Critics Association
  • Best Film
  • Best Actor (Emile Hirsch)
  • Best Supporting Actor (Hal Holbrook)
  • Best Supporting Actress (Catherine Keener)
  • Best Director (Sean Penn)
  • Best Writer (Sean Penn)
  • Best Song ("Guaranteed")

• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
  • Best Picture
  • Best Screenplay - Adapted (Sean Penn)
  • Best Supporting Actor (Hal Holbrook)

• Directors Guild of America Awards
  • Best Director - Film (Sean Penn)

• Cinema Audio Society
  • Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures

• Costume Designers Guild Awards
  • Excellence in Costume Design for Film - Contemporary

• Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
  • Best Foreign Film - English Language (Sean Penn)

• Grammy Awards
  • Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media ("Guaranteed")

• Gotham Awards
  • Breakthrough Award (Emile Hirsch)

• Satellite Awards
  • Best Original Song ("Rise")

• Screen Actors Guild Awards
  • Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (Emile Hirsch)
  • Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (Hal Holbrook)
  • Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Catherine Keener)

• USC Scripter Award
  • USC Scripter Award (Sean Penn) (screenwriter), (Jon Krakauer) (author)

• Writers Guild of America Awards
  • Best Adapted Screenplay (Sean Penn)

[edit] Box office performance

In North America, Into the Wild initially opened in limited release, in four theaters and grossed $212,440, posting a per-theater average of $53,110. For the next several weeks, the film remained in limited release until it expanded to over 600 theaters on October 19, 2007; in its first weekend of wide release, the film grossed just $2.1 million for a per-theater average of $3,249. As of December 25, 2008, the film has grossed $18,354,356 domestically and $37,281,398 internationally. In total, the film has grossed $55,635,754 worldwide.^[18]

[edit] Home video release

Into the Wild was released on 4 March, 2008 as a standard DVD,^[19] Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition DVD,^[20] and standard HD DVD.^[21] The standard DVD contains the feature film, audio commentary, and trailer. The special edition DVD and HD DVD additionally contain two special features entitled The Story, The Characters and The Experience. The Blu-ray Disc edition was released in France on 16 July, 2008.^[22] The Blu-ray edition for the U.S. was released on 16 December, 2008.^[23]

[edit] Soundtrack

The soundtrack is performed by Eddie Vedder, guitarist and lead singer of Pearl Jam, Jerry Hannan with his song "Society", and Kaki King. Vedder won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for the song "Guaranteed". The music at the end of the theatrical trailer is "Acts of Courage" by X-Ray Dog, a company that supplies music for many movie trailers.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Into the Wild (film)

• Official site
• Into the Wild at the Internet Movie Database
• Into the Wild at Rotten Tomatoes
• Into the Wild at Metacritic
• Into the Wild at Box Office Mojo
• Into the Wild at Allmovie
• Youtube - Magic Bus in Winter, March of 2007.
• Youtube - Magic Bus in Summer, August of 2007.
• Google Earth Community - Aerial photo of the Magic Bus, Google Earth Overlay of the region and downloadable KMZ file.
• The original article written by John Krakauer and published in Outside Magazine
• Outside Magazine interview with the Director and Cast of "Into the Wild"