Synopsis
Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.
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Cast
- Bruce GreenwoodRene Bartlett
- Ella PurnellMackenzie
- Brian GeraghtyUncle
- Ann DowdJeanie
- Nolan Gerard FunkTommy
- Diane FarrJane
- Joshua LeonardTed
- Erin Lindsay KingDiner Waitress
Recommendations
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Los Angeles Times
Wildlike is an uncommon and deeply sensitive take on this type of story. - 83
The Playlist
Wildlike is not a traditional Hollywood feel-good buddy road movie, but a semi-slow burn experience that takes its subject matter and characters seriously while unrolling the central relationship of the story in a refreshingly deliberate pace. - 70
Village Voice
Greenwood brings his usual A-game, generating great chemistry with Purnell in their ad hoc paternal relationship, but she's the revelation. - 60
The New York Times
The Wildlike landscapes are exhilarating, but when the film works, it’s because of the interiors.
