New in Theaters: ‘Wild’

Reese Witherspoon explores the great outdoors and finds herself in ‘Wild’ (Fox Searchlight)

Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 memoirWild—about her brave and highly foolish decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail with no training as a way of exorcising her painful past—was many things that a bestseller and Oprah often aren’t: emotionally lacerating, unexpected, vulnerable, and clear-eyed about people’s weaknesses and dark sides. For the inevitable and surprisingly spot-on film adaptation, Reese Witherspoo...