This weekend we rented “Into the Wild” with Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Catherine Keener (Mrs. Dermot Mulroney-yum), Vince Vaughn and Hal Holbrook. 
Screenplay and Directed by Sean Penn.

Inspired by a true story of Christopher McCandless who abandons his life of comfort to live penniless on the road and eventually in the Alaskan wilderness.

This is not an action-packed movie that will have you on the edge of your seat as the girl at Blockbuster warned me but I knew that going in.  My husband and I enjoy these types of stories where people go and live off of the land because it is one of our daydreams…to disappear and leave society, although we never will.

I got to thinking about this though…
In 2006 there were 110,484 missing person cases of which only half were under 18. (source FBI.gov)
I wonder how many people just left everything they had behind and walked away and disappeared.  It’s better than suicide if you’re unhappy and although it’s painful for the people who are left behind, there are times when I can understand where they are coming from. 

Anyway…we really liked this movie.