Into the Wild


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Film Information*

Country: United States Genre: Adaptation, Adventure
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Distributor: Paramount Vantage, Focus Features, Tobis Film GMBH & Co. KG, Style Jam
Release Date: 09/21/2007
Logline:Based on a true story of top student and athlete Christopher McCandless, an Emory graduate, who abandons his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness where he met his untimely fate.
Synopsis:
Based on a true story of one young man's tragic 'return to nature'. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.

Credits - Into the Wild*

Actor Role
Emile Hirsch Christopher McCandless
Catherine Keener Jan Burres
Vince Vaughn Wayne Westerberg
William Hurt Walt McCandless
Marcia Gay Harden Billie McCandless
Dan Burch
Zach Galifianakis Kevin
Cheryl Francis Harrington
John Jabaley
Kyle Kwon Ted Turner
Thure Lindhardt Thomas
Kathleen Mattice
Signe Egholm Olsen Thomas' Girlfriend
Haley Ramm
J. Nathan Simmons
Susan Spencer
Kristen Stewart Tracy
Steve Wiig Ranger Koehler
Robin Mathews Gail Borah

Companies - Into the Wild*

Company Role
Clyde Is Hungry Productions Production Company
Focus Features Distribution Sales
Focus Features Foreign Distribution Rights
Linson Films Production Company
Paramount Vantage Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Paramount Vantage Studio
River Road Entertainment Co-Financier
River Road Entertainment Production Company
Style Jam Foreign Distribution Rights
Tobis Film GMBH & Co. KG Foreign Distribution Rights

Release Information*

Release Notes:
Release scheduled in USA September 21, 2007.

Locations*

Los Angeles, California USA
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Michael Cera
...Mottola: "I predict that the Michael Cera tabloid story will be that he is missing in Canada, that he's gone 'Into the Wild' -- but in Mike's case it will mean he went camping and forgot to tell his manager." Recent breakthrough...

Prestige pictures get super-sized
...critics debated the 140-minute length of actor-director Sean Penn's $20 million adaptation of Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild." The film, unlike Krakauer's lean 224-page non-fiction narrative, takes its time sending its young antihero...

Palm Springs fetes Hirsch, Blonsky
...Hairspray" and said Hirsch "has earned a reputation as the foremost leading man" with his performance in Sean Penn's "Into the Wild." Hirsch just wrapped the Wachowskis' "Speed Racer." Blonsky will next be seen in "Harold" alongside Cuba...

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