I didn't know Vallée had died (in December), aged 58. This is a wonderful tribute, an amazingly cinematic film. Particularly distinguished by its editing (Vallée himself, with Martin Pensa) and sound (both of which should have been Oscar nominated; supervising sound editors are Ai-Ling Lee, and Mildred Iatrou - who also worked on La La Land, First Man, Battle of the Sexes and What Men Want), and in the acting. I've said before it's Roegian. The fragmentary use of sound and flashbacks make it a fun mosaic. We have to attribute some of this to Nick Hornby's treatment, which gives it to you in jigsaw pieces.
Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern were Oscar nominated. Gaby Hoffman is the single women hiker she meets.
The Pacific Crest Trail is in fact 2653 miles long in its entirety ranging from California (near Mexico border) through Oregon to Washington. The one in the Robert Redford A Walk in the Woods is the Appalachian Trial in the East (Georgia to Maine).
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