Wild

Only a hundred or so more days to go. Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) did just that. She strayed. Weighted down by guilt, anger and grief over the death of her mother, the then-22-year-old pulled up stakes and -- figuratively, at least -- she wandered, like so many tend to do in times of trouble.

For her, it became a dangerous journey, as the self-described experimentalist and habitual yes-girl wandered farther than most dare, toward heroin addiction, toward meaningless sex, toward anything to help her forget everything but the moment.

And then she found her way back.

It's that moving and inspirational journey -- to the brink of self-destruction and back again -- that she described in her best-selling 2012 memoirs, and it's the journey director Jean-Marc Vallee tells in his beautiful, soul-stirring adaptation, "Wild."

After day one of her hike up the Pacific Crest Trail—a winding path that stretches from the Mexican border all the way up the West Coast of the U.S. to the outskirts of Canada—Cheryl Strayed is seriously questioning her willpower. And her sanity.  

But it was kind of a mental meltdown that got her here in the first place. Her life has become a mess. She knows it, and everyone around her knows it. Before she set her feet down on this rough-cut trail, she had been on a self-destructive path of drug addiction and sex with strangers. It was a trek that had destroyed her marriage and sucked away her health. Maybe walking a thousand miles will set things straight.

If nothing else, this journey might give her a chance to think, to dissect the mistakes she's made, to salve the things that hurt the most. Maybe this exhausting slog filled with aching muscles, scraped knees and bloody feet will allow her to finally dig up all the stuff she's had buried down deep.

So she shrugs into her huge and agonizingly heavy pack once again. She takes the next step. She conquers the next mile. She embraces the next hour alone with her thoughts. With only a hundred or so more days to go.

Cast:

Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed

Laura Dern as Mom/Bobbi

Thomas Sadoski as Paul

Keene McRae as Leif

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Movie Info

With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. WILD powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthens, and ultimately heals her. (c) Fox Searchlight

Rating:	R (for sexual content, nudity, drug use, and language)
Genre:	Drama
Directed By:	Jean-Marc Vallée
Written By:	Nick Hornby
In Theaters:	Dec 3, 2014 Limited
On DVD:	Mar 31, 2015
Runtime:	1 hr. 55 min.

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