
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
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| The Film YapNick RogersEven in its harrowing final moments, it reaches a spiritually transcendent pinnacle - the idea of ending one long, strange trip and plummeting into an even-greater unknown with both fear and elation. A stirring American drama of comfort and conflict. |
| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsThoroughly entertaining Hollywood fare which holds up a dope as a person deserving of admiration. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaEncaixa-se perfeitamente na filmografia de Sean Penn, que, como diretor, parece se especializar em histórias tristes e desesperançosas que buscam investigar a natureza humana através do que ela tem de mais angustiante. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatThe engrossing true-life drama of an idealistic young man who yearns to live alone in the Alaskan wilderness and to reap the soulful benefits of solitude in the spirit of Thoreau. |
| Little White LiesKevin MaherDeserts, mountains, railroads, bears and a sad and lonely epiphany about the nature of human existence! |
| Sacramento News & ReviewBob GrimmSean Penn's first masterpiece as a director. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff ViceThis fact-based drama pulls off a fairly tricky feat -- it's touching, thoughtful, sad, funny, sweet and ultimately redemptive -- and all at once. |
| Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)Greg MakiThe great accomplishment of Into the Wild, Sean Penn's film based on Jon Krakauer's fact-based book of the same name, is that it allows us to sympathize with Chris. We may not agree with the choices he makes, but we understand. |
| Sacramento BeeCarla MeyerDirector-screenwriter Sean Penn's gorgeous, compassionate film takes a generous approach to the story of McCandless, the real-life seeker who gave away his savings and belongings and walked into the Alaskan wilderness. |
| Orlando SentinelRoger MooreIt's a gorgeous, self-assured, thrilling and entertainingly intimate epic, an actor's picture in front of and behind the camera. |