McCandless destroys his credit cards and identification, donates his savings to Oxfam and sets out on a cross-country drive in his Datsun 210 to experience life in the wilderness. He is disenchanted with modern society after discovering he and his sister Carine were born out of wedlock. In May 1990, McCandless graduates with high honors from Emory University. 22, reads books, and keeps a journal as he prepares his new life in the wild. He is content with the isolation, the beauty of nature, and the thrill of living off the land. McCandless sets up camp in an abandoned city bus that he calls 'The Magic Bus'.

Noting McCandless' unpreparedness, the man who drops him off gives him gumboots. In April 1992, Christopher McCandless arrives in a remote area called Healy, just north of Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. It was also nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Holbrook. It was nominated for two Golden Globes and won the award for Best Original Song: ' Guaranteed' by Eddie Vedder.

It received critical acclaim and grossed $56 million worldwide. The film premiered during the 2007 Rome Film Fest and opened outside Fairbanks, Alaska, on September 21, 2007. Dierker, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, and Hal Holbrook. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless, Marcia Gay Harden as his mother, William Hurt as his father, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Brian H. It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name written by Jon Krakauer and tells the story of Christopher McCandless ('Alexander Supertramp'), a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s.

Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical adventure drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn.

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