Based on Jon Krakauer’s acclaimed bestseller, the Paramount Vantage film Into the Wild follows recent college graduate Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), as he walks out of his privileged life and into the wild, in search of adventure. The 22-year-old McCandless’ set out on a quest that took him from the wheat fields of South Dakota to a renegade trip down the Colorado River to the non-conformists’ refuge of Slab City, California, and beyond. Along the way, he encountered a series of colorful characters at the very edges of American society, who shaped his understanding of life and whose lives he, in turn, changed. In the end, McCandless tested himself by heading alone into the wilds of the great North, where everything he had seen, learned and felt came to a head, in ways he never could have expected.

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