Fourteen-year-old Joe is the only chiId of Jeanette and Jerry - a housewife and a golf pro - living a seemingIy idyllic life in 1960s Montana. His family s carefuIIy constructed façade is about to come crashing spectacuIarly down however, when Jerry loses his job and his sense of purpose. ln an attempt to restore his pride, Jerry takes off for the summer to help fight the wiIdfires raging near the Canadian border, a life-threatening job, for very Iittle pay. An angry and bereft Jeanette must quickIy Iearn to fend for herseIf, and does so with gusty, chaIIenging culturaI expectations and taking a quietly bewildered Joe along for the ride. An elegant adaption of the Richard Ford novel of the same name, WiIdlife is an impressive directorial debut from Golden Globe nominee Paul Dano, starring Carey MuIligan (Never Let Me Go, An Education, Shame, Suffragette), Jake GyIIenhaal (NightcrawIer, Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko), Ed OxenbouId (The Visit, Paper Planes) and BiII Camp (The Night Of, Loving, Midnight SpeciaI). |