The Call of the Wild (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Ron Lamothe |
| Produced by | Ron Lamothe |
| Written by | Ron Lamothe |
| Music by | Mark Zaki |
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Terra Incognita Productions
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115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Call of the Wild is a 2007 documentary film by the independent filmmaker Ron Lamothe. The premise details the odyssey of Christopher McCandless as Lamothe takes a road trip across North America to the places McCandless visited. Within the film, Lamothe reaches conclusions about McCandless' death which contradict both Sean Penn's film Into the Wild (2007) and Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild (1997), on which it was based.
In 2006, Ron Lamothe, a Massachusetts filmmaker whose projects seem to be on hold due to his being a committed father, decides to make a road trip documentary on Christopher McCandless. Lamothe was inspired by McCandless' story even before the book Into the Wild (1997) was published, as both he and McCandless were born in 1968 and graduated from college in 1990. They also shared the same roommate at one time in their lives, and Lamothe took a life-changing trip to Africa during the same time as McCandless' travels.
After a brief swim in Walden Pond, Lamothe begins his journey to Annandale, Virginia, where McCandless grew up and went to high school. Lamothe then journeys to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where McCandless graduated in May 1990, and attends the 2006 graduation ceremony. Also attending the ceremony is filmmaker Sean Penn, who coincidentally was then filming a major motion picture about McCandless. Lamothe interviews a few graduates on their plans after college in hopes of finding a "McCandless" in the crowd while comparing the graduates to the free-spirited Generation X.
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