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Into the Wild

2007 · Movie · 148 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer83%as of 2022-11-29
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.5/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic73/100as of 2025-06-16

What it is

Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical adventure drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer and tells the story of Christopher McCandless, a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless, Hal Holbrook, and Catherine Keener.

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Genres
Drama
Original language
English

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