Into the Wild

Sean Penn's factually based, beautifully photographed, moving, and ultimately heartbreaking film about restless, adventurous, idealistic Georgia college graduate Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) who donates his $24,000 life savings to charity, leaves his parents (William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden) and sister (Jena Malone) without a word in West Virginia, and heads out in 1990 on a 2-year, solitary, cross-country journey where strangers (Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Hal Holbrook, Brian Dierker, et al.) help him on his trek to the Alaskan wilderness where he searches for what will ultimately make him happy.
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