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| Directed by | Jean-Marc Vallée |
| Screenplay by | Nick Hornby |
| Based on | Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed |
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| Cinematography | Yves Bélanger |
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| Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million[1] |
| Box office | $52.5 million[2] |
Wild is a 2014 American biographical adventure drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and written by Nick Hornby, based on the 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Michiel Huisman, Gaby Hoffmann, Kevin Rankin, and W. Earl Brown, the film follows Strayed as she embarks on a solo hiking trip on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 after numerous personal problems had left her life in shambles.
The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2014, and was released theatrically in the United States on December 5, 2014. It received positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $52.5 million against its $15 million budget. Witherspoon and Dern received nominations at the 87th Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.[3][4]
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- ^ "Wild (2014)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
- ^ "Wild". Metacritic. CBS. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- ^ "It'll be a 'Wild' night for Laura Dern". USA Today. Retrieved January 23, 2015.