Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

Hal Holbrook

Based on the true story of Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild was written using the biography Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Hal Holbrook plays the confused young adult McCandless, a recent college graduate who decided to give up all of his material possessions to live in the Alaskan wilderness alone.

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