Into the Wild (Blu-ray) R
Into the heart. Into the soul.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 29, 2017
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden & William Hurt | |
Performer: | Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, Zach Galifianakis & Hal Holbrook | |
Directed by | Sean Penn | |
Edited by | Jay Cassidy | |
Screenwriting by | Sean Penn | |
Composition by | Michael Brook, Kaki King & Eddie Vedder | |
Produced by | Sean Penn & Art Linson | |
Director of Photography: | Eric Gautier |
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- Penn has evidently soaked up his Terrence Malick. But with its thoughtful pace and loose structure, his depiction of the McCandless odyssey also recalls Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY.
Empire
Ranked #3 in Rolling Stone's 10 Best Movies Of 2007 -- This is personal filmmaking at its soaring best. Penn honors his subject and the courage it takes to push boundaries.
Rolling Stone
4 stars out of 5 -- As the wide-eyed hero, Hirsch is excellent....This is Penn's big auteur statement on our times....It has more soul in its sprawl than any other film this year.
Uncut
Sean Penn's majestic travelogue about a young drop-out on an idealistic quest in the great American outback is the best film the writer-director has ever made.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
A young man with plenty of advantages renounces the modern world, wounds his family deeply and is acclaimed a sort of saint.
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Independent (UK)
As [Hirsch] struggles with the elements, his increasing frailty and the cinematography's increasing grandeur mesh in a way that's at once iconic and wrenching.
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NPR.org
5 stars out of 5 -- Director and book adapter Sean Penn has the greatest eye for composition of any successful actor turned film-maker since Clint Eastwood...
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Product Description:
Jon Krakauer's bestselling nonfiction book about the life of Chris McCandless is finally brought to the big screen in INTO THE WILD. Directed by Sean Penn, the film opens in 1992, when Chris (Emile Hirsh) is a promising college graduate. Shortly after graduation, Chris gives his life savings to charity, burns all of his identification, and begins hitchhiking across America, his ultimate goal being Alaska. Citing passages from his heroes, Thoreau and Jack London, he is determined to escape society and get back to nature. He blows from town to town like a tumbleweed, hopping trains, camping with aging hippies (Catherine Keener and Brian Dierker), working briefly with a farmer (Vince Vaughan), and befriending a widowed leather worker (Hal Holbrook). He revels in his newfound freedom, but meanwhile, his parents (Marcia Gay Harden and William Hurt) have no idea where he is, and are sick with worry. While their relationship with Chris was already troubled, they are nonetheless devastated by his disappearance. Chris's sister, Carine (Jane Malone), narrates much of the film, offering her reflections on the effect Chris's absence has on his family. Chris finally makes it to Alaska, where he hikes out to a remote campsite and discovers an abandoned bus. He manages to survive there for a few months living off the land, but he eventually runs out of supplies and becomes trapped, leading to his tragic end.
INTO THE WILD bounces around chronologically, jumping back and forth from the start of Chris's journey to his final few weeks living aboard the bus. This works to great effect as the storylines begin to merge and the tension and dread mount, and we see the fate that will eventually befall Chris. Penn obviously had great admiration for his subject, and while the film appears to differ from the book in places, it nevertheless paints a heartbreaking portrait of this young man's short but fascinating life.
INTO THE WILD bounces around chronologically, jumping back and forth from the start of Chris's journey to his final few weeks living aboard the bus. This works to great effect as the storylines begin to merge and the tension and dread mount, and we see the fate that will eventually befall Chris. Penn obviously had great admiration for his subject, and while the film appears to differ from the book in places, it nevertheless paints a heartbreaking portrait of this young man's short but fascinating life.
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