Book Club to Watch Into The Wild
Posted by Joshua Jude, March 6th, 2008.
Book Club is currently reading The Trial by Franz Kafka but since the previous Book Club offering, Into the Wild, is coming out on DVD on March 4th we had to watch it. Showtime will be 7:30 on Wednesday March 5th. This film is an excellent adaptation and an excellent movie to boot. This film was directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless/Alexander Supertramp, Marcia Gay Harden and William Hurt as Alex’s parents, Jena Malone as his sister, Catherine Keener as Jan Burres, Hal Holbrook as Ron Franz (in an Oscar nomination), and Vince Vaughn as Wayne Westerberg. This film was snubbed by the Academy, but hey what do they know? They gave Kim Basinger, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks (twice) and Driving Miss Daisy Oscar awards.