Wild is a movie about human, nature, animal, love, friendship, family, marriage, joy and grief, life and death, sex and drugs, rights and wrongs...It's a movie about a lot of things you might constantly have on your mind about life, if that makes sense. The main character talks to herself about the unstoppable events life threw at her and how she reacted, like we all do from time to time, and it's refreshing to see that on screen. She searches for a way. Reese Witherspoon portrays the character very well, both physically and emotionally. A movie rarely spans 'things about life' in such a successful way, in my opinion. Very recommended!

This movie is about how a young woman who has suffered much in her brief life-mother dying of cancer, abusive alcoholic father, drug addiction, sex addition-discovers her true self and her will to live by undertaking an arduous three month long walking trip along l along Americas West coast.- the Pacific Crest trail The movie is watchable but is marred by too much cursing, graphic depictions of sex and bad language.

For the first 10 to 15 mins the movie looked really good got me hooked until the flashbacks took over and gosh they were all over the place they took up more then half of the movie i mean for a movie to be called wild you would expect it to have a lot of nature beautiful scenery but in total maybe 20 to 30 min were of hiking which made the movie hard to watch for me and what the hell was with the drug use and sex scenes i did not want to see that in this particular kind of movie and one last thing what the hell happened to the baby she was carrying it was never explained and before i go i thought she went on this hike to get over the sadness of her mothers passing how can this have a 7.4 I've hikes camped and all that this is nothing like it

I agree with Tom Berraras' review, but not his three star rating for Wild.This is a story that deserves to be told, and it was told well. Reese proved right for the part. What I liked most about the movie was it's refusal to candy-coat neither the "earlier" part of her life, nor the hike-segment experiences. The movie was from an auto-biography, so it apparently stayed close to the original illustration.What I would have like to have seen were 1.) A few minutes on scenes that showed what went through her mind when she chose to do the Pacific Coast Trail. How did her friends and family react? How did she make her gear selection/purchases? Also, some more inner dialogue along the Trail would have been good.There was some, and I recognize this, but there must have been some thoughts/feelings that were relatively cheerful/positive that propelled and sustained her on her journey. We see, instead, mostly recollections of negative past experiences.All-in-all, this is a memorable movie and one well-worth watching. It takes very few dramatic liberties, but instead is a sometimes-hard look at the life of one emotionally wounded person and her search for the unconditional joy that her mother offered her.Some more exploration of the evolution of the inner person would have been helpful, but I enjoyed Wild very much.