Like the memoir on which it’s based, Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild opens with Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon), a 26-year-woman escaping a life of self-destruction by hiking 1,100 miles on California’s brutal Pacific Crest Trail, in a jam. She’s just witnessed one of her boots tumble down a cliff, never to be seen again. In a fit of understandable rage, she tosses the other boot … [Read more...]