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Into the Wild [Special Edition] [2 Discs]

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Released: 2008-03-04

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Into the Wild [Special Edition] [2... DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Brian Dierker, Vince Vaughn, Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Stewart, Hal Holbrook

Director(s): Sean Penn

Features:
cc
Disc 1:
No features listed

Disc 2:
The story, the characters
The experience

Into the Wild [Special Edition] [2... DVD Details

Video:
Enchanced Widescreen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Audio:
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Dolby Digital w/ 4 channels of sound from a 2-channel stereo mix.
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish

Running Time: 148
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 097361316949
Product Code: PRT131694DVD
Format: DVD
Year:2007
Studio: Paramount

Into the Wild [Special Edition] [2... DVD Summary Into the Wild is writer/director Sean Penn's adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a nonfiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of a young Virginia man, who divorces himself from his friends, family, and possessions in search of a greater spiritual knowledge and communion with nature.

Upon his 1990 graduation from Emory University in Atlanta, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) walks away from a loving if dysfunctional family and sends his nearly 25,000-dollar life savings to Oxfam International.

Instead of the normal life his parents planned for him, Chris rechristens himself "Alexander Supertramp" and heads west in his beaten-up automobile until it no longer runs, at which point he takes up hitchhiking.

The goal on the horizon? Alaska.

By hook or by crook -- but without his limited cash, which he symbolically sets aflame -- Chris/Alexander determines to make it to his personal promised land, with stops along the way to experience America and its people.

These adventures include a kayak trip down dangerous rapids, a gig working in a grain mill, extended stays with a hippie couple and a kindly old widower -- and enough cold, hunger, and exhaustion to leave him emotionally defeated more than once.

Meanwhile, his parents (William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden) and sister (Jena Malone) haven't received so much as a postcard from him, and begin to fear the worst.

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder composed the contemplative soundtrack.

Into the Wild [Special Edition] [2... DVD Outside Critic Reviews " As actor and director, Penn long has been drawn to the existential and elemental. Life and death. Remorse and revenge. All these themes converge -- symphonically -- in Into the Wild, his most fully realized work as a director. " - Philly Inquirer

"Super '70s in both style and sensibility, Into the Wild does for vagabond New Age souls what Deliverance did for misguided suburban macho." - Toronto Star

" It is we who are made a little more complete for wrestling with, and watching, Penn's film. " - Denver Post