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Into the Wild is a movie about Christopher McCandless, a young guy whose family is upper class, well off; but he wants something else. He donates his 24k dollars of Harvard money from his savings, all of it, to Oxfam, and then leaves his life to travel cross country towards his dream of living for a while alone in Alaska. On his way, he meets some strange characters, and has some wild times. Once he reaches alaska, he finds an abandoned bus which he nicknames "the magic bus" and lives in it, using it as a home base. He hunts and fishes, sometimes unsuccessfully, but once he decides to return to civilization, he can't cross the river to get back, so he stays...but after 100 days, his food is dwindling, and he eats some poisonous plants by accident and slowly starts to die. His body is found, months afterwards, along with is diaries and the incredible story of his journey, and everything he endured.