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Into the wild – Synopsis and cast

Freshly graduated from college with a promising future, 22 year-old Christopher 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.

Was Christopher McCandless a heroic adventurer or a naive idealist, a rebellious 1990s Thoreau or another lost American son, a fearless risk-taker or a tragic figure who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature? McCandless’ quest took him from the wheat fields of South Dakota to a renegade trip down the Colorado River to the non-conformists’ refuge of Slab City, California, and beyond.

Into the wild & Chris Mccandless

Into the wild & Chris Mccandless

Along the way, he encountered a series of colorful characters at the very edges of American society who shaped his understanding of life and whose lives he, in turn, changed. In the end, he tested himself by heading alone into the wilds of the great North, where everything he had seen and learned and felt came to a head in ways he never could have expected.

Emile Hirsch – Christopher McCandless

Marcia Gay Harden – Billie McCandless

William Hurt – Walt McCandless

Hal Holbrook – Ron Franz

Catherine Keener – Jan Burres

Jena Malone – Carine McCandless

Kristen Stewart – Tracy Tatro

Brian H. Dierker – Rainey

Vince Vaughn – Wayne Westerberg

Zach Galifianakis – Kevin

Scenes from Into the wild

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A young man leaves his middle class existence in pursuit of freedom from relationships and obligation.

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Was Christopher McCandless a heroic adventurer or a naive idealist, a rebellious 1990s Thoreau or another lost American son, a fearless risk-taker or a tragic figure who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature?

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

McCandless’ quest took him from the wheat fields of South Dakota to a renegade trip down the Colorado River to the non-conformists’ refuge of Slab City, California, and beyond.

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Along the way, he encountered a series of colorful characters at the very edges of American society who shaped his understanding of life and whose lives he, in turn, changed.

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

In the end, he tested himself by heading alone into the wilds of the great North, where everything he had seen and learned and felt came to a head in ways he never could have expected.

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Giving up his home, family, all possessions but the few he carried on his back and donating all his savings to charity Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) embarks on a journey throughout America.

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

His eventual aim is to travel into Alaska, into the wild, to spend time with nature, with ‘real’ existence, away from the trappings of the modern world.

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

In the 20 months leading up to his Great Alaskan Adventure his travels lead him on a path of self-discovery, to examine and appreciate the world around him and to reflect on and heal from his troubled childhood and parents’ sordid and abusive relationship.

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

When he reaches Alaska he finds he has been insufficiently prepared for the hardships to come.

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Despite making it through the winter his plan is ill-judged and prepares to return home in spring, only to find the stream he crossed in the snow has become an impassable raging torrent and that he is trapped.

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

With no means of sustaining himself adequately he takes to eating berries and fauna, that he identifies using a book.

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Into the wild - Christopher McCandless

Unfortunately, he awakes one morning to find that the berries he consumed the night before were in fact poisonous, and causes him to starve in his so sought after isolation.

Throughout his epic journey the people he meets both influence and are influenced by the person he is and bring him to the eventual and tragic realisation that “Happiness is only real when shared”.