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Wildlife
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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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value restrained, observant family dramas about emotional neglect and coming of age amid adult instability.
- Tone
- melancholic, bleak, contemplative
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family fracture, adolescence, abandonment, marital instability, emotional isolation
- Setting
- 1960s, small-town homes and wildfire-threatened Montana landscapes
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