Peter Travers' Best and Worst Movies of 2007

Emile Hirsch invests himself totally in the role of Chris McCandless, the Emory College grad who walked into the Alaskan wilderness without a map in 1992 to test himself against his own limitations. But it's director Sean Penn, adapting the book by Jon Krakauer, who tells this remarkable true story as if it were part of his own DNA. This is personal filmmaking at its soaring best. Penn honors his subject and the courage it takes to push boundaries.

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