A journey worth going on

IF Eat Pray Love had blisters instead of yoga, it'd be Wild, a movie that so happens to also be based on a book written by a woman about her journey of self-discovery.

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) and adapted by novelist Nick Hornby, the film became a pet project for producer-actress Reese Witherspoon after the Hollywood star read Cheryl Strayed's best-selling 2012 memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.

The book documents the latter's 1,800 km solo trek from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to the border with Washington State; a punishing journey that is perhaps fraught with more danger than the life of sex and drugs the author originally led before she decided to embark on this soul-searching trip.