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directed by Sean Penn
Into the heart. Into the soul.
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.

Emile Hirsch
Christopher McCandless / Alexander Supertramp

Marcia Gay Harden
Billie McCandless

William Hurt
Walt McCandless

Jena Malone
Carine McCandless / Additional Narration (voice)

Brian H. Dierker
Rainey

Catherine Keener
Jan Burres

Vince Vaughn
Wayne Westerberg

Kristen Stewart
Tracy Tatro
Director
Sean Penn
Language
EN
Budget
$15M
Box Office
$56M
Into the Wildby Jon Krakauer (1996)
Sean Penn's film is reverent β Krakauer's journalistic reconstruction of McCandless's journey is more ambivalent about his romanticized self-destruction
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