The Call of the Wild (2007)

Directed by

Ron Lamothe

Genre

documentary film, docudrama

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 35m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker travels across North America to retrace the steps of Christopher McCandless. He offers his own conclusions about McCandless's death that differ from the more famous book and movie.

thoughtfulcontemplativeinvestigativemelancholicroad-tripjournalisticpersonalslightly academic

What happens

The Call of the Wild is a 2007 documentary film by the independent filmmaker Ron Lamothe. The premise details the odyssey of Christopher McCandless as Lamothe takes a road trip across North America to the places McCandless visited. Within the film, Lamothe reaches conclusions about McCandless' death which contradict both Sean Penn's film Into the Wild (2007) and Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild (1996), on which Penn's film was based. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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