Wildlife

About Wildlife

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.

Wildlife (2018) is a drama film directed by Paul Dano. The film is filed under teenage boy, fire, montana, and bus.

Jake Gyllenhaal takes the lead as Jerry Brinson, Carey Mulligan as Jeanette Brinson, Ed Oxenbould as Joe Brinson, and Zoe Colletti as Ruth-Ann. It runs 105 minutes and was released in September 2018.

The screenplay is by Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan. Produced by Sight Unseen Pictures. The story is adapted from a novel. In the United States it streams on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, and AMC Plus Apple TV channel.

Flipped, The Wife, and Let Him Go make useful companions to Wildlife, all filed under 1960s and infidelity. TMDB voters put it at 6.6 out of 10 across 802 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.