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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Wildlike is a 2014 Americanfeature film written and directed by Frank Hall Green.[1][2] Filmed inAlaska and starringElla Purnell,Bruce Greenwood,Brian Geraghty,Nolan Gerard Funk andAnn Dowd, it has a 92% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and has played over 150 film festivals and won over 100 festival awards.[3]It was filmed on location inDenali National Park,Juneau,Anchorage,Palmer,Whittier,Matanuska Glacier, and on the state ferry boatKennicott run by theAlaska Marine Highway System.
The film was produced by Green, with Julie Christeas, Schuyler Weiss and Joseph Stephans, and executive-produced byChristine Vachon.[4] The director of photography was Hillary Spera,[5] and it was edited byMako Kamitsuna. The score was composed by Daniel Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans, and the production designer was Chad Keith.
Mackenzie (Ella Purnell), a 14-year-old girl, is sent to stay with her uncle (Brian Geraghty) inJuneau, Alaska, at the request of her drug-addicted mother[6] following her hospitalization and the unavailability of another guardian, her father having passed away the preceding year.[7] Her mother informs her daughter of her plan to rent an apartment inSeattle (around their "grand ole neighbourhood") and receive outpatient care but seeks time to settle things out. However, after being molested by her uncle whom she had been entrusted to, she runs away and ends up finding healing in a journey across the state of Alaska, following an older widowed backpacker (Bruce Greenwood) in the hope of eventually reaching her final destination, Seattle.[8]
A joint project by Greenmachine Film, Tandem Pictures andKiller Films[9]Wildlike was released nationwide in 2015 to positive reviews.[10] It opened the 2014 Anchorage International Film Festival,[11] and was screened at the Napa Valley Film Festival,[12] Athens International Film Festival.[13] and theOceanside International Film Festival.[14]
After screening at the 2015 Hamptons International Film Festival,[15] it was shown at over 200 others, including the Woodstock, Napa Valley, Newport Beach, IndieMemphis, Woods Hole, Cleveland, Cork, Austin, Atlanta, Independent Boston, Savannah, Cucalorus, and St. Louis, and Minneapolis-St. Paul International film festivals.[16] It was also shown at Hawaii's Big Island Film Festival, where it received the Best Feature prize.[17]
OnRotten Tomatoes,Wildlike holds an approval rating of 92% based on 13 reviews, and an average rating of 7.4/10.[18]
| Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
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| 2015Phoenix Film Festival | Best Picture | Wildlike | Won |
| 2015Phoenix Film Festival | Best Acting Ensemble | Wildlike | Won |
| 2015Phoenix Film Festival | Best Screenplay | Wildlike | Won |
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