Before he went missing, Johnathan Croom had developed an obsession with the movie “Into the Wild,” in which a young man leaves society to go live off the land. Unfortunately, both stories had ...

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In the early moments of the 2007 movie Into the Wild, Emile Hirsch ... down tales of the outdoors where you would have that kind of respect, but your average moviegoer also.