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Wild

Based on the inspirational best seller.

2014 · 1h 55m · R Drama
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée

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Overview

A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

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There's neither cinematic majesty to the vistas (and I saw the movie on a very big screen and sat very close to it) nor intimacy to the ground that Strayed treads.

Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh

Wild may sound like a film about redemption, but it's more about learning to live with what you can't control - and accepting what you can control, which is sometimes just as difficult.

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Fresh

What do you do when your heroine is tough but emotionally hurt, bright but glib, grown but immature? Make a film about her that is both painful and uplifting.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh

Not since June Carter Cash in Walk the Line has Witherspoon been so present to a character. Her Cheryl is funny and messy, wounded but not without survival instincts.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Rotten

There's nothing particularly wild about "Wild," a forward-plodding story of redemption that follows Reese Witherspoon's determined march toward a best actress Oscar nomination.

Tom Long, Detroit News

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