Into the Wild is writer-director Sean Penn's adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a non-fiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of a young Virginia man, who divorces himself from his friends, family and possessions in search of a greater spiritual knowledge and communion with nature. Upon his 1990 graduation from Emory University in Atlanta, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) walks away from a loving if dysfunctional family and sends his nearly $25,000 life savings to Oxfam... [more]