Into the Wild

Into the Wild
by Sean Penn

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Actor: Catherine Keener, Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, William Hurt
Director: Sean Penn
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Producer: Sean Penn
Writer: Sean Penn
Producer: Art Linson
Producer: David Blocker
Producer: Frank Hildebrand
Producer: John J. Kelly
Writer: Jon Krakauer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 148 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount

DVD Reviews of Into the Wild

DVD Review: Into the Wild
Summary: 5 Stars

The first time I saw this movie, I was speechless, the 2nd time I saw this movie I was speechless.

Just watch it, it is the most amazing journey and the outcome, the result of Alexander Supertramp is ... I am not gonna spoil it for you.

Best movie of the year!!!

DVD Review: Into the wild
Summary: 4 Stars

The product is like expectin don't play in any of my Dvd of course is no anybody fault i dont have HD dvd player....

DVD Review: AWESOMELY YET SAD REALITY OF DOING IT YOUR WAY!
Summary: 5 Stars

I remember when this story hit the news. Alexander Supertramp was judged harshly by the media when his life met it's tragic end. This book and the DVD show the true heart of this young man who set out in search of what life was really all about.

Though depicted very differently at the time, he was really no different than those who climb Everest, go to the moon or explore the depths of the ocean. He was an adventurer and died doing what he loved to do.

This DVD was wonderfully done and brings out the truth of who he really was. I highly recommend it.

DVD Review: Not so much into, as out of
Summary: 5 Stars

It is very easy to take this film, and this true story too literally and at face value, and miss the point. Taking in to account so much of the dialogue and the type of things that are highlighted, it becomes clear what the film-maker is trying to convey. This story is all about exposing what social consciousness means (think social pressure and constraints), it's insipid power and stranglehold. As well as it's demand for blindness and dishonesty. And an example of how much it takes to attempt to escape it. The only real tragedy in this film is the length to which a young man felt compelled to go, in order to escape our prison planet. The point of this film is to see and understand why he felt so compelled. It's not so much about the what,... but the why. The vast majority of us can't even hope to escape this invisible power. The best we can do is to become aware of it, and awareness leads to change. Just a super job. I've never seen anything else quite like it.

DVD Review: Into the Wild
Summary: 5 Stars

It was a excellent book and end up watching the DVD too. And that was even better.

Description of Into the Wild

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.

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 na?f, 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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