History Film / Wild

* FanDisservice: Witherspoon does her first nude scenes since 1998's ''Twilight'' (no, not [[Literature/{{Twilight}} that one]]). But her sexual encounters, except for the one on the trail, are mostly depicted as degrading.

* TheRedBaron: Cheryl finds to her mildly annoyance that her presence on the trail has gotten around and she's gotten the nickname, "The Queen of the PCT."

* SpiritualAntithesis: to ''Film/IntoTheWild''. Both films center around protagonists DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife through leaving their lives behind and going on ambitious hiking trips. The difference between Cheryl and Christopher/Alexander is that while the latter dies alone and woefully unprepared, Cheryl both [[KnowWhenToFoldEm Knows When to Fold 'Em]] and also knows to prepare for a journey even if comically inadequately.

* CrazyPrepared: Deconstructed. Cheryl brings a whole load of things with her on her hike. Turns out most of them are completely useless and only weigh down her pack considerably. As such, an experienced hiker helps her go through her pack and minimize the load[[note]]Take note of the labels for camping equipment for hikers in REI or a similar outdoors store - everything has it's weight given to the exact ''ounce'', because every single one adds up, and hikers are always looking to save weight[[/note]].

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Voiceover during the last scene in which Cheryl tells the audience that she got married, had kids, and started a career as a writer.
* YourCheatingHeart: Cheryl's serial infidelity during her first marriage leads to its dissolution. She actually mentions at the time that she prefers sleeping with strangers to sleeping with her husband.

* SceneryPorn: There's the stark beauty of the Mojave Desert, the vistas of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Crater Lake, where Strayed makes camp.

* GenreSavvy: The guy in the pickup truck tells Cheryl he figured out that she was lying about [[spoiler: her husband being out there with her]] because he probably appeared to be a creepy guy who might abduct her and she wanted to warn him off.

* {{Fanservice}} / FanDisservice: Witherspoon does her first nude scenes since 1998's ''Twilight'' (no, not [[Literature/{{Twilight}} that one]]). But her sexual encounters, except for the one on the trail, are mostly depicted as degrading.

** Justified, oddly, since she's more or less walking along the state border.

* ToiletHumor: During a montage earlier in the film, she is badly covering her poop with rocks, which is exactly the opposite of what other hikers would do in this situation. Afterwards, she talks to herself on how she wishes for a toilet.
** A deleted scene shows an extension of this. She goes through a lot of hard work just to finally take a dump.

''Wild'' is a 2014 film directed by Creator/JeanMarcVallee, with a screenplay written by Creator/NickHornby, and starring Creator/ReeseWitherspoon. The film is based on Cheryl Strayed's memoir of her 1100-mile trek along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. The death of Strayed's mother Barbara (played by Creator/LauraDern, who is [[PlayingGertrude only nine years older than Witherspoon]]) sends Strayed into a life crisis that includes heroin abuse and random casual sex with any man who wants it.

''Wild'' is a 2014 film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, with a screenplay written by Creator/NickHornby, and starring Creator/ReeseWitherspoon. The film is based on Cheryl Strayed's memoir of her 1100-mile trek along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. The death of Strayed's mother Barbara (played by Creator/LauraDern, who is [[PlayingGertrude only nine years older than Witherspoon]]) sends Strayed into a life crisis that includes heroin abuse and random casual sex with any man who wants it.

* SpiritualSuccessor: to ''Film/IntoTheWild''. Both films center around protagonists DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife through leaving their lives behind and going on ambitious hiking trips. The difference between Cheryl and Christopher/Alexander is that while the latter dies alone and woefully unprepared, Cheryl both [[KnowWhenToFoldEm Knows When to Fold 'Em]] and also knows to prepare for a journey even if comically inadequately.

''Wild'' is a 2014 film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, with a screenplay written by Creator/NickHornby, and starring Creator/ReeseWitherspoon. The film is based on Cheryl Strayed's memoir of her 1100-mile trek along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. The death of Strayed's mother Barbara (played by Creator/LauraDern, who is [[PlayingGertrude only nine years older than Witherspoon]]) sends Strayed into a life crisis that includes heroin abuse and random casual sex with any man who wants it. After her self-destructive behavior wrecks her marriage, Strayed decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail as a sort of purification ritual in which she hopes to become a better person. She starts in the Mojave Desert of California and hikes all the way to the Oregon-Washington border.

* CrazyPrepared: Deconstructed. Cheryl brings a whole load of things with her on her hike. Turns out most of them are completely useless and only weigh down her pack considerably. As such, an experienced hiker helps her go through her pack and minimize the load.

* {{Hobos}}: Strayed runs into a reporter from the ''Hobo Times'' who assumes that she is a hobo and starts interviewing her. She insists that she isn't a hobo, but has to admit that she doesn't actually have a job or a place to live.

* {{Freakout}}: While sleeping in the wilderness one night, Cheryl wakes up feeling ''something'' crawling on her leg. She panics, leaps out of her sleeping bag, shakes it loose, blows her safety whistle loudly at the trespasser. [[spoiler:It was a harmless woolly bear caterpillar.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Played with. Cheryl accumulates cuts, bruises, and blisters over the course of her journey, but she still only delves into UnkemptBeauty at worst, even after roughing it out in the wilderness for weeks without showering.

* CrazyPrepared: Deconstructed. Cheryl brings a whole load of things with her on her hike. Turns out most of them are completely useless and only weigh down her pack considerably.

* AtomicFBomb: In the first scene, Cheryl unleashes a ridiculously loud "FUCK YOU!" at her boots, which had been giving her ''horrible'' blisters due to being way too small for her feet, after hurling them off a mountain. When the story picks up it becomes apparent that she never bothered recovering them and continued on with her journey wearing sandals and bandages until the REI sent her new boots.

* AtomicFBomb: In the first scene, Cheryl unleashes a ridiculously loud "FUCK YOU!" at her boots, which had been giving her ''horrible'' blisters due to being way too small for her feet, after hurling them off a mountain. When the story picks up it becomes apparent that she never bothered recovering them and continued on with her journey wearing sandals and bandages until the boot company sent her new boots.