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'Wild' confronts baggage in isolation
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Reese Witherspoon, left, portrays Cheryl Strayed and Michiel Huisman portrays Jonathan in “Wild.”
Cheryl Strayed, as played by Reese Witherspoon in Jean-Marc Vallee’s “Wild,” is, bless the lord, not an easily discernible type. She’s also not the sort we’ve often encountered on the well-trod paths of female stereotypes in movies. Strayed is a bundle of messy imperfections, as we gradually learn from flashbacks that accumulate throughout her therapeutic journey on the Pacific Crest Trail in “Wild.”