11/30/2014

Contest: Win a 'Wild' Prize Pack! (CONTEST CLOSED)

I don’t know about you, but I find that things are getting pretty wild now that award season is kicking into gear. It would take a monster of a backpack filled with supplies to fuel me through the season: some good music to lighten the mood, maybe some energy bars to fuel me through reviews, a headlamp to help me navigate the deep and dark bag of screeners, and an inspirational book to guide through the days to come. Luckily, though, Wild—my favourite film from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (read the 5-star review here)—opens in theatres starting Dec. 5 and Cheryl Strayed, played by an Oscar-worthy Reese Witherspoon, has just the goodie bag to provide all the essentials. If you want to win a great Wild prize pack to fuel your holiday movie watching, you are in luck! Answer the trivia below for your chance to win some Wild prizes from Fox Searchlight Pictures, including a copy of the book Wild on which the film is based and a copy of the Wild soundtrack featuring music from Simon & Garfunkel, First Aid Kit, Bruce Springsteen, Portishead, Wings and more! (Now available for download on iTunes.)

Synopsis: In Wild, director Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club), Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) and Academy Award nominated screenwriter Nick Hornby (An Education) bring bestselling author Cheryl Strayed’s extraordinary adventure to the screen. After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi (Academy Award nominee Laura Dern) and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own. Wild powerfully reveals her terrors and pleasures --as she forges ahead on a journey that maddens, strengthens, and ultimately heals her.


Thanks to Fox Searchlight Pictures, Cinemablographer.com has somw Wild prize packs to give away to lucky readers! Prize packs include:

-A Wild Soundtrack, featuring music from Simon & Garfunkel, First Aid Kit, Bruce Springsteen, Portishead, Wings and more! (Now available on iTunes)
-A copy of the book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed
-A Wild windbreaker
-A special Wild edition of the Pacific Crest Trail hat
-A Wild hiking headlamp (requires 2 AAA batteries, not included)
-Some Wild Clif bars (chocolate chip and white chocolate macadamia nut… nom nom!)
- A Wild poster

All you have to do to enter is answer the following question:

What does Cheryl name her backpack in Wild?

a) The Beast
b) Sylvia Plath
c) Monster
d) Suzanne

Send your answer and full mailing address with phone number* to _ with the subject “Wild.”
(Limit one email entry per person please. Multiple entries will be discarded.)

Bonus entries go to anyone who shares/likes this contest on Facebook and Twitter!

Contest closes on Tuesday, Dec. 9 at noon EST.

Wild opens in Toronto on December 5 from Fox Searchlight Pictures and expands across Canada throughout December.
(It opens in Ottawa on December 25th.)

Read Cinemablographer.com’s 5-star review of Wild here.


*Contest open to residents of Canada only. (Excludes Quebec.)