This week on Jake and Pete’s Movie Talk, we’re heading out into the wilderness with Wild from 2014.
Reese Witherspoon stars as Cheryl Strayed, a young woman who, after the death of her mother and the subsequent collapse of her marriage and personal life, decides to walk more than a thousand miles along the Pacific Crest Trail in an attempt to put herself back together.
Pete is rather fond of this one. Jake, however, has a few issues with Cheryl’s methods of self-discovery.
We get into Reese Witherspoon’s excellent performance, Laura Dern, grief, addiction, bad decisions, enormous backpacks, questionable park rangers, female hobos and whether walking a thousand miles really counts as taking responsibility for the mess you’ve left behind.
Jake even reads most of the book in an effort to give Cheryl a fair shake. It helps. A little.
So lace up your boots, pack far too much food and join us for Wild.
