After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 23 wins & 106 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
As [Hirsch] struggles with the elements, his increasing frailty and the cinematography's increasing grandeur mesh in a way that's at once iconic and wrenching.
– Bob Mondello,
NPR.org,
18 Oct 2008
rotten:
The photography is of the sort you'd find in any half decent nature documentary, with cloying emphasis placed firmly (and sometimes clumsily) on the idea that our neglectful, selfish and not to mention rampantly capitalist ways are destroying the planet.
– David Jenkins,
Time Out,
8 Nov 2007
rotten:
Hirsch, who carries the film on his increasingly emaciated shoulders, performs heroically, but there's an edge missing.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
1 Nov 2007
rotten:
The movie tries its hardest to celebrate the impetuousness of its hero and the exhilaration of his accomplishments. Mostly, though, it just reminds you of the severity of his mistakes.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
5 Oct 2007
fresh:
Without diminishing the deep transcendentalist yearnings of its young hero, Into the Wild builds to a climax of profound human connectedness, profound human pain.