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Synopsis: Based on the masterpiece, American short story, Walking Out, David (Josh Wiggins), an urban teenager's journey to rural Montana to go hunt big game with his estranged, 'off the grid' father, Cal (Matt Bomer). As they ascend deep into the wilderness, father and son struggle to connect on any level. A brutal encountering leaves them both with serious injuries in order to survive. survive.
Production: IFC Films
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
79
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
PG-13
Year:
2017
95 min
$101,947
217 Views


I don't know

what you want me to say.

Why was it

the last year he hunted?

Grandpa Clyde?

He was 64 damn years old..

But that wasn't the reason.

We took a moose

and a goat that year.

God, that goat.

Every inch of its hide

was covered with ticks.

I don't know why he quit.

I'd say it was my mother

dying so young.

You know, I guess

when death is in the air..

When a man feels himself

getting older..

He didn't much

want to kill anymore.

And I was just then

getting the taste for it.

Out.

Hey, dog.

Cranes.

Your mother loved them.

Flying home.

Later..

Years later

he'd still go out

after birds by himself.

So he didn't

stop hunting completely.

He usually just went out and

missed every shot on purpose.

Rise and shine.

Rise and shine.

We're gonna get our moose today.

You know, landmarks

can save you.

In case we get separated

or if you get lost

you go to high ground

and find them.

That bull pie snag

with the forked crown?

It marks the head

of the creek valley.

From there, we can wait

and watch

the whole Meadow

without being seen.

Is this..

This whole mountain's ours?

Well, today, yes.

We own it.

I'm hunting moose

with my father.

I'm getting my moose today.

Where's that bull pie?

Over there.

Let's go!

Better wait for your old man.

Sir moose comes once

in the morning.

And once again in the evening.

Least that's

what his tracks say.

He may not come for hours.

Or at all.

You can't tell.

If you could,

it wouldn't be hunting

it would be shopping.

He may even know

this is the last week

of the season.

So he may be on his guard

and go somewhere

less open to drink.

But he may not be

all that clever.

He could make a mistake.

Hey.

David.

What is that?

An old male griz.

- Are we gonna shoot him?

- No. No.

Why not?

Because we don't want to.

Because that's not hunting

for the meat.

That's hunting for the fear.

- He saw us.

- No, he smelled us.

They can smell a hundred

times better than we can.

Let's take a look

at that beaver pond.

Stay close.

Yeah, there's something

rotten down here.

Goddammit.

Three days. Maybe four.

Four days since what?

Someone tracked me tracking it.

Come closer,

you need to know this.

Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen

seventeen, eighteen.

Eighteen goddamn bullets.

From some pissant's

goddamn squirrel rifle.

Why'd they do that?

Goddamn asswipes!

You think they're still around?

I hope so.

You hear me,

you redneck f***ers?

You goddamn hear me?

Goddamn it.

Goddamn it.

Two weeks I follow you

two mother-loving weeks.

Get to know your habits

your scent, your scat.

Get taken by some

goddamn tourist.

Follow one's star, huh, Katie?

Yeah, you bet you followed it.

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David Quammen

David Quammen (born February 1948) is an American science, nature and travel writer and the author of fifteen books. He wrote a column called "Natural Acts" for Outside magazine for fifteen years. His articles have also appeared in National Geographic, Harper's, Rolling Stone, the New York Times Book Review and other periodicals. In 2013, Quammen's book Spillover was shortlisted for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. more…

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