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A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.
Oct 19, 2018 | Theatrical Limited (105 locations)
Other Key Dates
Jan 20, 2018 (Sundance Film Festival (USA))
May 9, 2018 (Semaine de la Critique Cannes Film Festival (France))
Jun 29, 2018 (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czechia))
Jul 14, 2018 (Odessa International Film Festival (Ukraine))
Jul 28, 2018 (Jerusalem Film Festival (Israel))
Aug 4, 2018 (Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia))
Aug 11, 2018 (Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia & Herzegovina))
Sep 6, 2018 (Toronto International Film Festival (Canada))
Sep 19, 2018 (Jameson CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival (Hungary))
Sep 19, 2018 (Miskolc International Film Festival (Hungary))
Sep 20, 2018 (Baltic Pearl Film Festival (Latvia))
Sep 28, 2018 (Zurich Film Festival (Switzerland))
Sep 30, 2018 (New York Film Festival (USA))
Oct 4, 2018 (Hamburg Film Festival (Germany))
Oct 5, 2018 (Mill Valley Film Festival (USA))
Oct 11, 2018 (American Film Festival (Russia))
Oct 13, 2018 (BFI London Film Festival (UK))
Oct 13, 2018 (San Diego International Film Festival (USA))
Oct 14, 2018 (Gent International Film Festival (Belgium))
Oct 16, 2018 (Chicago International Film Festival (USA))
Oct 18, 2018 (New Orleans Film Festival (USA))
Oct 23, 2018 (Philadelphia International Film Festival (USA))
Oct 28, 2018 (Austin Film Festival (USA))
Nov 2, 2018 (Leiden International Film Festival (Netherlands))
Nov 6, 2018 (Paris premiere (France))
Nov 8, 2018 (Los Cabos International Film Festival (Mexico))
Nov 13, 2018 (Stockholm International Film Festival (Sweden))
Nov 22, 2018 ()
Nov 23, 2018 (Torino Film Festival (Italy))
Apr 7, 2019 (Beijing International Film Festival (China))
Jul 5, 2019 (digital premiere (Germany))
$14,266
$1,050,616
$2,270,751
$3,321,367
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Country of Origin: United States
Set in 1950s Montana, “Wildlife” shows and tells the drama and angst that a teenage boy, Joe, goes through, witnessing both his parents split up in his presence. His father, Jerry, loses his job. And though he was offered his job back, he refuses to take it back because he “won’t work for those kind of people anymore”. So instead, he takes a job fighting a forest fire, which his wife, Jeanette, is dead set against, both for safety reasons, and because she’s convinced that he will be unfaithful while away. But he leaves anyway. And yet, without anything happening to him, or any evidence of hanky-panky on his part, she acts the way one would expect her to act had he perished in the fire, or if she had found out that he had been unfaithful while away. This fact causes Joe to acquire uneasy feelings toward his mother. His father does return however. But the three are no happier for it, as Jeanette has taken up with a new significant other in her life. And Jerry reacts furiously against this. The parents wind up separating as she moves to take up a teaching job in Oregon, while Joe continues to live with his father. And then, she suddenly announces that she’s taking the bus to visit over the weekend. Perhaps in an odd way, this movie combines both a satisfactory and unsatisfactory ending. Directed by actor Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood, The Batman) and based on the Richard Ford novel, set in Montana in the fall of 1960, Wildlife is a portrait of a family unravelling. Young Joe Brinson (Oxenbould) watches his parents’ (Gyllenhaal, Mulligan) marriage implode after his father loses his job. A painful tale of adolescent observation in a world where grown-ups behave like children and children are forced to act like adults.