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Into the Wild

starring: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt
directed by: Sean Penn

Release Date March 04, 2008
First, I'll get my admitted bias out of the way: Whenever 'Hollywood' gets a hold of something that is hawked as "based on true events", this should be a huge red flag to viewers that they should make it their business to research the alleged "based on true events" in order to separate the Hollywood tendency to engage in both directorial "creative license" and "for the sake of the plot" alterations. Unfortunately, there are folks who see the proverbial 'Silver Screen' [or book [Jon Krakauer] for that matter] version of the alleged "facts" and that's the end of it.

So too, there is in this particular case both in the book and in the subsequent movie to 'romanticize' Chris McCandless and that his eventual death by starvation, yes, ... Read More: