Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

aphrodisiaciix Not only effectively done in a restraint and subtle way of story telling and acting, against a very hard to deal with topic, it's also beautifully illustrated with camera direction and cinematic photography of Alaska. Ella and Bruce have done a marvelous acting job with great chemistry and screen presence. Strongly recommended.

eyeintrees At no time did I not feel for the female lead in this movie. The actress portrayed the huge struggles in her life with her face and eyes despite the minimal script, or because of it... and all the trauma of being abused, afraid, entrapped, alone and homeless, and then surviving as best she could, with utmost realism. Not once did she err on the side of overacting or melodrama.The male leads were also perfectly cast and did an excellent job.I have no idea what was going on with the countryside in the Alaskan mountains, whereby either the camera was hand-held and the scenery was jumping or it was superimposed... that was weird but only lasted for about 10 minutes of the movie... not in a big way but it was a little amateurish.I would have liked to have learned why the girl's father died... we didn't and so, under the assumption that her mother was an addict who was supposed to be in 'treatment' but who checked herself out and disappeared, did this poor young protagonist have a father who od'd, was dysfunctional etc etc??I got the impression that the situation presenting in this movie regarding the sexual abuse was not new to the girl in the role and that perhaps this 14 year old had just being going the 'easy route' with a long list of abusive mother's boyfriends for years... it certainly wasn't portrayed as if this kind of abuse was new to her, rather that the way she had learned to cope with it was to deal with it as per the movie shows.In my experience, if a young person feels unsupported and that there is no one who cares or to turn to, they develop low key coping mechanisms but begin to show the long term side effects of the abuse as a 'life skill'.All very well done until the worst ending in living history, making me feel I had just sat and watched an intelligent and powerful movie until the director or somebody got bored and yelled 'cut' without any even vaguely, not even close to an intelligent ending.I have no idea what happened. Frankly, the guy should have been taken to the police and so on. No idea what happens in the end. I was left feeling like a pancake... flat and covered in layers of sugar coated junk.

In-Reviews I saw WildLike recently at a tiny nonprofit in Houston called 14 Pews. Once a church in its lower middle-class neighborhood and no larger than the surrounding wood-frame houses, 14 Pews screened WildLike on behalf of the indie film festival whose main venue was downtown. Frank Hall Green, the writer-director, was present for a post-screening discussion. The movie was the only WorldFest-Houston film I had chosen to see. Midway through the movie I felt the euphoria of discovery. In this intimate, quasi-sacred setting, and in the presence of the director himself, I was watching a really fine film!WildLike is about a 14-year-old girl named Mackenzie (Ella Purnell), a teenage runaway, who flees the uncle with whom she has been living in Juneau, Alaska. Mackenzie wants to return home to her mother who lives in Seattle but lacks the resources to get there. She quickly discovers that wandering Juneau alone and attempting to manipulate others (young men) into rescuing her is a dismal, risky business. Quite by accident, however, Mackenzie runs into fortyish Rene Bartlett (Bruce Greenwood) in Juneau en route to Alaska's Denali National Park for a long planned solitary trek through the wilderness. Rene instinctively recoils from Mackenzie's annoying adolescent wiles and does everything to lose her. Seattle is also Rene's home. WildLike is the story of the relationship between Mackenzie and Rene.If you're looking for a feel-good story about the personal "journeys" of two people who learn wonderful life lessons through their fortuitous father-daughter encounter, WildLike isn't it. You'll fall for the film anyway, because writer-director Frank Hall Green's WildLike is a much grittier, subtler, more fascinating study. In steadfastly avoiding the Hollywood tropes, clichés and moralizing that could have spoiled WildLike, Green's focuses instead on the innumerable details of performance and story, on subtle gestures and body language that prove so revealing, in life as well as in movies. Green has let nothing false, unlikely or contrived creep into his movie, and that makes it a really wonderful experience for those of us who are allergic to such things. WildLike's characters are flawed and imperfect, its ending modest but suspenseful and deeply satisfying. Luckily, Greenwood and Purnell are the perfect talent for Green's approach. Greenwood's gift for conveying inner experience through the lines on his face is mesmerizing, and Purnell perfectly realizes Mackenzie's cool but desperate, hopelessly naive efforts at being a grownup.WildLike may not be exactly what audiences expect. It is a surprisingly fine film about an imperfect relationship between ordinary people that moves awkwardly toward a fortunate conclusion. It will appeal to anyone who loves to study the interplay of dissimilar personalities through cinema. And the scenes set in Denali are wonderful. You will not be disappointed. After the screening, Green described how he fine tuned every detail of WildLike's screenplay. Nothing happened by accident. I am certain Green has found his voice in this movie.

aperson-08497 I got a chance to see this film plus participate in a question and answer session. See it if you get a chance. I highly recommend this film. It includes a great cast with beautiful scenes of Alaska. You get just enough detail about the characters to make the story relevant and interesting. It is about a troubled teenager. She is sent to live with her uncle. There are issues so she runs away and sees a whole different way of living. Most of the characters are very likable. The relationships between the teenager and others are really well done. Her history and future are somewhat vague and perhaps it may be useful to see just a little of that.