A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 13 wins & 69 nominations total
- Joe
- (as Ray Mist)
- Therapist
- (as Randy Schulman)
- Director
- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe young Cheryl is portrayed by Cheryl Strayed's daughter Bobbi Strayed Lindstrom.
- GoofsThe film is set in 1995 (see the Jerry Garcia death newspaper headline) yet Cheryl is reading Gone Girl (published in 2012). This is a cross-promotion for the Reese Witherspoon-produced Gone Girl (2014).
- Quotes
[last lines]
Cheryl: [voiceover] It took me years to be the woman my mother raised. It took me 4 years, 7 months and 3 days to do it, without her. After I lost myself in the wilderness of my grief, I found my own way out of the woods.
[pause]
Cheryl: And I didn't even know where I was going until I got there, on the last day of my hike. Thankyou, I thought over and over again, for everything the trail had taught me and everything I couldn't yet know.
[pause]
Cheryl: Now in 4 years, I'd cross this very bridge. I'll marry a man in a spot almost visible from where I was standing. Now in 9 years, that man and I would have a son named Carver and a year later, a daughter named after my mother, Bobbi. I knew only that I didn't need to eat with my bare hands anymore. That seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water would be enough, that it was everything. My life, like all lives, mysterious, irrevocable, sacred, so very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be?
- Crazy creditsThere are photos of the real Cheryl Strayed on her actual walk shown during the credits.
- SoundtracksEl Condor Pasa (If I Could)
Written by Paul Simon, Jorge Milchberg & Daniel Alomía Robles
Performed by Simon & Garfunkel
Also Performed by Reese Witherspoon (uncredited)
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
One of the minor miracles of "Wild" is how subtly it explores not just the trials and dangers one would encounter in such a hike, but specifically how those trials and dangers are heightened, or at least are of a different nature, for a woman. Only once in the film is it overtly addressed, but before that scene late in the film, the director and Witherspoon have already conveyed without words how perilous such an adventure could be for a young woman, for whom every encounter with a strange man carries with it the possibility of sexual predation, even if it doesn't materialize (which, the film acknowledges, in most cases it doesn't). At the same time, the film restores one's faith a little bit in humanity, suggesting that most people are decent and kind and willing to help, no strings attached.
Witherspoon and Dern were both justly Oscar nominated for their performances, and the gorgeous Pacific West scenery deserved an award of its own.
Grade: A
- evanston_dad
- May 19, 2015
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- Also known as
- Alma salvaje
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Box office
- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $37,880,356
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $606,810
- Dec 7, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $52,501,541
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1