

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.
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6.6/10
806 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $3.1M
- Language
- English
- infidelity
- fire
- based on novel or book
- montana
- bus
- golf
- teenage boy
- 1960s
- wildfire
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival20 Jan 2018
- Theatrical (limited)PG-1319 Oct 2018
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A9 Nov 2018
- Digital / OTT12A18 Mar 2019
- Physical12A18 Mar 2019
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival3 Aug 2018
- TheatricalM1 Nov 2018
AustriaAT
- Digital / OTT1212 Apr 2019
BrazilBR
- Digital / OTT1427 Feb 2019
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical (limited)1523 Sept 2018
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival9 May 2018
- TheatricalU19 Dec 2018
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTT125 Jul 2019
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical23 Sept 2018
HungaryHU
- Digital / OTT1819 Sept 2018
IrelandIE
- Theatrical12A9 Nov 2018
IsraelIL
- Theatricalהותר לכל3 Jan 2019
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Wildlife was released on 23 September 2018.
Audience reviews
3- S7/10
Stephen Campbell
6/21/2019
**_Old-fashioned filmmaking with a progressive theme_** > _She looked at me and the expression on her face was an expression of dislike, one I hadn't seen before but knew right away. Later I would see it turned toward other people. But the first time was looking at me and was because she believed she'd done all she could that was correct and the best thing, and it had only gotten her stuck with me. And I couldn't …
- 55/10
5rJoud
7/2/2021
**Warning: Gyllenhaal is not the lead here** We see a boring family break apart from the perspective of the young boy. End of story. Safe to say there is no story, but there could easily have been one. Clearly the father is the most interesting character in "Wildlife". Being fired from a job that is not that good in the first place, he retains some of his pride and self-respect by refusing an offer to go back to t…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
4/15/2024
Ed Axenbould holds this together quite well as the teenage "Joe". His day to day life is thrown into turmoil when his father "Jerry" (Jake Gyllenhaal) gets laid off. Struggling to make ends meet with his wife "Jeanette" (Carey Mulligan) he decides to take a job some way away, a decision that leaves his wife feeling abandoned. The youngster must now cope with his mother's creative methods of dealing with the stresses …
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