Wild

Only a hundred or so more days to go.

After day one of her hike up the Pacific Coast Trail—a winding path that stretches from the Mexican border all the way up the West Coast of the U.S. to the outskirts of Canada—Cheryl Strayed is seriously questioning her willpower. And her sanity. 

But it was kind of a mental meltdown that got her here in the first place.

Her life has become a mess. She knows it, and everyone around her knows it. Before she set her feet down on this rough-cut trail, she had been on a self-destructive path of drug addiction and sex with strangers. It was a trek that had destroyed her marriage and sucked away her health. Maybe walking a thousand miles will set things straight.

If nothing else, this journey might give her a chance to think, to dissect the mistakes she's made, to salve the things that hurt the most. Maybe this exhausting slog filled with aching muscles, scraped knees and bloody feet will allow her to finally dig up all the stuff she's had buried down deep.

So she shrugs into her huge and agonizingly heavy pack once again. She takes the next step. She conquers the next mile. She embraces the next hour alone with her thoughts. 

With only a hundred or so more days to go.

GENRE

Drama

CAST

Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed; Laura Dern as Mom/Bobbi; Thomas Sadoski as Paul; Keene McRae as Leif

DIRECTOR

Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club, The Young Victoria)

DISTRIBUTOR

Fox Searchlight

IN THEATERS

December 3, 2014