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Wildlike
Mackenzie, a troubled but daring teenage girl, is sent by her struggling mother to live with her uncle in Juneau, Alaska. Although Uncle seems like a supportive caretaker and friend, the relationship turns and Mackenzie is forced to run. Trying to make her way back to Seattle alone to find her absent mother, Mackenzie only winds up deeper in the Alaskan interior. Lost and with no one else to turn to, she shadows a loner backpacker, Bartlett, an unlikely father figure with scars of his own. Together, they cross the wilderness and discover sanctuary in the last frontier.
12 August 1956, Noranda, Québec, Canada
5 September 1987, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
19 December 1978, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
28 July 1986, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
July 16, 2015
Writer-director Frank Hall Green has crafted an engaging feature that touches the heart without getting sappy.
September 22, 2015
Green has deeper ambitions, eschewing procedural survival-in-the-wilderness material for a strong focus on character.
September 27, 2015
An uncommon and deeply sensitive take on this type of story.
September 30, 2015
Finds beauty, calm, and trust between two strangers and makes it as compelling an experience as any big-budget spectacle could ever hope to create.
September 24, 2015
Green explores an atypical relationship between a solitary, 50-something man who finds that a vulnerable but determined kid has attached herself to him, no matter what, as he sets off into the wild.
September 26, 2015
"Wildlike" is not a traditional Hollywood feel-good buddy road movie, but a semi-slow burn experience that takes its subject matter and characters seriously while unrolling the central relationship of the story in a refreshingly deliberate pace.
March 10, 2017
Wildlike is a little over 90-minutes, but feels like it's 180.
September 24, 2015
Purnell and Greenwood make the most of silence, discovering that much can be communicated through darting glances, weary movement and the slow buildup to a hopeful smile.
September 24, 2015
Frank Hall Green, directing his own script, maintains a poker-faced perspective, offering no hints as to where the story might lead and allowing scenes to unfold casually.
September 24, 2015
Essentially a two-hander with solid performances and minimalist dialogue.
October 02, 2015
Profound coming-of-age drama deals with edgy topics.
September 24, 2015
The "Wildlike" landscapes are exhilarating, but when the film works, it's because of the interiors.
