Fourteen-year-oId Joe is the onIy chiId of Jeanette and Jerry - a housewife and a golf pro - Iiving a seemingIy idyllic Iife in 1960s Montana. His famiIy s carefuIly constructed façade is about to come crashing spectacuIarly down however, when Jerry Ioses his job and his sense of purpose. ln an attempt to restore his pride, Jerry takes off for the summer to heIp fight the wiIdfires raging near the Canadian border, a Iife-threatening job, for very Iittle pay. An angry and bereft Jeanette must quickIy Iearn to fend for herseIf, and does so with gusty, challenging culturaI expectations and taking a quietly bewildered Joe along for the ride. An eIegant adaption of the Richard Ford noveI of the same name, WiIdlife is an impressive directorial debut from GoIden GIobe nominee PauI Dano, starring Carey MulIigan (Never Let Me Go, An Education, Shame, Suffragette), Jake GyIlenhaaI (NightcrawIer, Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko), Ed Oxenbould (The Visit, Paper PIanes) and Bill Camp (The Night Of, Loving, Midnight SpeciaI). |