Wildlife

Wildlife

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  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 2018-09-23
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • : 6.7
  • Production Company: Sight Unseen Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
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6.7/10
6.7
From 712 Ratings

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.

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Reviews

  • 5rJoud

    5
    By 5rJoud
    **Warning: Gyllenhaal is not the lead here** We see a boring family break apart from the perspective of the young boy. End of story. Safe to say there is no story, but there could easily have been one. Clearly the father is the most interesting character in "Wildlife". Being fired from a job that is not that good in the first place, he retains some of his pride and self-respect by refusing an offer to go back to that kind of work, an offer from the very same people who discarded him before. Instead he shows everybody and himself what it means to work hard, for little money, and do some good in the process. That is the story that should have been explored, not the son's take on things who, admittingly, acts admirable in the face of adversity, but is just not very interesting as a human being. Maybe it would have helped if the actor had any screen presence, or would have even remotely looked like his parents, for believability. Acting is great, from everybody in the film. Setting is awesomely done, camera work is fine. Score is not memorable, but that might be because the pace of the movie is so off, considering there was nothing to tell. 2 January 2019 I am migrating my reviews from a different site which has become simply garbage. TMDB looks awesome and I look forward to be a part of it.

  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    Ed Axenbould holds this together quite well as the teenage "Joe". His day to day life is thrown into turmoil when his father "Jerry" (Jake Gyllenhaal) gets laid off. Struggling to make ends meet with his wife "Jeanette" (Carey Mulligan) he decides to take a job some way away, a decision that leaves his wife feeling abandoned. The youngster must now cope with his mother's creative methods of dealing with the stresses and strains whilst reconciling his own feelings about both her and his absentee dad, of whom he is really fond. To be fair, not a great deal actually happens here - it is really just a delicately written observation on how relationships struggle once the family bedrock is compromised. Axenbould gives quite an assured performance (though an hair stylist is definitely in order), as does Mulligan and her wealthier friend Bill Camp ("Miller") - a man of whose motives we are never quite sure. The small town mentality is exposed, sure, but so is the distinct lack of opportunities; and as the couple split for purely practical reasons, the story makes us realise just how precarious many an otherwise robust relationship might be when put under such pressures. As usual, Gyllenhaal offers little here, but the other two deliver well.

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