Overview
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.
It seems there comes a time in many parent-child relationships where the child becomes the parent and the parent becomes… well, either a child or worse. This film starts off simple enough – it seems as though the child is growing up in a home with two well-adjust parents. And then…. you see the cracks of what is beneath. This film really resonated with me in that my parents very much resembled the characters in the movie. My parents got married far too young and later in life they reverted back to the time in which they stopped growing. This film was beautifully told and very well acted.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Wildlife
Movie title: Wildlife
Movie description: 14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.
Date published: 2019-02-02
Director(s): Paul Dano
Actor(s): Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould, Bill Camp, Zoe Colletti, Mollie Milligan, Marshall Virden, Travis W Bruyer, JR Hatchett, Russell Herrera Jr., Shane D. Davidson, Kristen Melling, Kami King, Darryl Cox, John Walpole, Richard L. Olsen, Cate Jones, Laurie Cummings, J. Alan Davidson, Stacy Casaluci, Ginger Gilmartin, Sara Moore, Avery Bagenstos, Ashton Moffitt, Connie Lynn Moore, Michael Gibbons, Jennifer Rogers, Kaye Brownlee-France, Kathy Kelly Christos, Devin Montgomery, Matt Coulson, Ronnie Felts, John Walpole, Nick Swezey, Jay Dee, John Reimer, Dakota Dennis, Dale Murphy, Justin Sheldon, Blaine Maye, Jordan Preston, Lexi Anastasia, Nick Marchetti, Tom Huston Orr, Dustin Wilson, Greg Williams, Ashlynn Ree, Taylor Fono, Chris Dry, Chris Bodelle, Stephanie Ballard, Charles Lipps, Erik P. Resel, Tryston Skye, Curtis D. Tucker
Genre: Drama
My Review
It seems there comes a time in many parent-child relationships where the child becomes the parent and the parent becomes… well, either a child or worse. This film starts off simple enough – it seems as though the child is growing up in a home with two well-adjust parents. And then…. you see the cracks of what is beneath. This film really resonated with me in that my parents very much resembled the characters in the movie. My parents got married far too young and later in life they reverted back to the time in which they stopped growing. This film was beautifully told and very well acted.
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My Review - 8/10
8/10