Wildlife(2018)

PG-13
Rated PG-13 for thematic material including a sexual situation, brief strong language, and smoking
1h 45m
- Drama

Release Date: Oct 19, 2018 | Limited

A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.

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Releases

Original Release | Oct 19, 2018

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$104,589
Total US & Canada:
$1,050,616
Total International
$2,270,751
Total Worldwide:
$3,321,367

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Director & Top Cast

Paul Dano
Director

Ananda Everingham
Julian

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Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English,Spanish

Summaries

Storyline

Set in 1950s Montana, "Wildlife" shows and tells the drama and angst that a teenage boy, Joe, goes through, witnessing both his parents split up in his presence. His father, Jerry, loses his job. And though he was offered his job back, he refuses to take it back because he "won't work for those kind of people anymore". So instead, he takes a job fighting a forest fire, which his wife, Jeanette, is dead set against, both for safety reasons, and because she's convinced that he will be unfaithful while away. But he leaves anyway. And yet, without anything happening to him, or any evidence of hanky-panky on his part, she acts the way one would expect her to act had he perished in the fire, or if she had found out that he had been unfaithful while away. This fact causes Joe to acquire uneasy feelings toward his mother. His father does return however. But the three are no happier for it, as Jeanette has taken up with a new significant other in her life. And Jerry reacts furiously against this. The parents wind up separating as she moves to take up a teaching job in Oregon, while Joe continues to live with his father. And then, she suddenly announces that she's taking the bus to visit over the weekend. Perhaps in an odd way, this movie combines both a satisfactory and unsatisfactory ending. Directed by actor Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood, The Batman) and based on the Richard Ford novel, set in Montana in the fall of 1960, Wildlife is a portrait of a family unravelling. Young Joe Brinson (Oxenbould) watches his parents' (Gyllenhaal, Mulligan) marriage implode after his father loses his job. A painful tale of adolescent observation in a world where grown-ups behave like children and children are forced to act like adults.