Wild, based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed 8.3 out of 10 Reese Witherspoon – nominated for an Academy Award for her performance – offers the audience a tour de force in this Wild motion picture, where the main character takes almost everything to the extremes, when she uses drugs it is with fervor and abandon, while she has a period of frequent sex – conservatives would call that fornication – it is again intense and finally, when she decides to take a hike, she accomplishes the impossible and travels alone for…one thousand one hundred miles! The story is told with flashbacks, in various tense moments, when the temperature drops to well below zero, she throws away perhaps her most valuable belongings, the walking boots, the protagonist thinks mostly of her deceased mother, Bobbi aka Laura Dern, also nominated for an Oscar for her remarkable acting, the abuse she has suffered from a violent father, that they had had to run away from, one night, in a pouring rain that looked like ...