Into The Wild [HD DVD] | ![Into The Wild [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q4r-Eog1L._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Sean Penn
Actors: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  316 reviews
Sales Rank: 33478
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 148 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: 132181
UPC: 097361321813
EAN: 0097361321813
ASIN: B000ZN803G
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: March 4, 2008
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/04/2008 Run time: 148 minutes Rating: R
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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 naïf, 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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Good. February 25, 2010
Mother of Five (Maine)
This was a true story, so that's the best part about it for me. Other than that it was ok.
 A Different Kind Of American Dream February 21, 2010
petesea (Orlando, FL)
Chris McCandless graduates Emory University in Atlanta with grades good enough to "get into Harvard Law" and his parents are jazzed and want to buy him a new car. Chris is not jazzed though about his parents version of the American Dream and its materialism and making a good impression on the neighbors. Chris is real intelligent and thoughtful and does not want to live in the work-a-day world and save for retirement - he wants to LIVE. So, he donates his law school money to charity and hits the road.
For such a smart guy who did well in college for himself and learned about things that interested him, he does make a couple of dumb mistakes - like not reading road signs or important books.
This film is wonderfully filmed, especially the slow motion water scenes, and written and directed by Sean Penn who puts his all into this film like he does with his acting roles. Emile Hirsch is very strong in the role of Chris and has to change his body and look as Chris lives off the land - more famine than feast.
Chris meets some cool, interesting people along the way - but, some of these encounters seem forced like the Danes along the Colorado River. Chris also learns some deep, dark family secrets - but, are they enough to make him seek his new kind of American Dream, alone in the wilderness like our forefathers?
 failed to play February 3, 2010
Zsuzsa Rakosy
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
We could not watch the movie. The DVD player and the computer could not read the DVD either. There was not any scratch on the surface, probably we got an empty DVD.
 "To be great is to be misunderstood" January 27, 2010
Justin Held (Illinois)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the best book into movie ever. This is the best movie ever. If you are like me and are constantly searching for that great divine spirit to show through in a person then let Christopher "alex" McCandless be your guide. Here is a true story about an individual who doesnt live by society, who doesnt need material posesions, a true poet with a passion for nature and life. Unfortunately he died, but in his short life he lived more than most of us. Critics who made fun of his death need to be careful what they say for they don't know how their end will come. Not that any one will notice. Alex is alive in every tree, rock and river,he is also in every virtuous nature loving soul whose read Krakauers book or seen his movie.
outstanding report of a special life January 27, 2010
P.Market (Milano, MI, Italy)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
outstanding, just as the film. really intriguing, well written. also the diversion about various outcasts is appropriate in my opinion
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