Wild

Wild is a drama based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, directed by French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival before screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Reese Witherspoon stars as Strayed with Laura Dern and Thomas Sadoski supporting.

In Wild, director Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club), Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) and Academy Award nominated screenwriter Nick Hornby (An Education) bring bestselling author Cheryl Strayed’s extraordinary adventure to the screen. After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi (Academy Award nominee Laura Dern) and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own. WILD powerfully reveals her terrors and pleasures –as she forges ahead on a journey that maddens, strengthens, and ultimately heals her.

“It was a huge physical undertaking for me to hike the PCT for 94 days,” Strayed recalls, “but it was also very much a spiritual journey. I turned to the trail as many people turn to the wilderness — at a time when I felt lost and desperate, when I was in a place where I didn’t know how to move forward. In many ways the trail taught me to literally just put one foot in front of the other again.”

Wild is rated 18A.

Read our review of the film here.

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