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This is one of the most interesting movies I've seen in some time. It stays with you after you walk out of the theater. If Reese doesn't get an Academy Award nomination for her performance then the whole process is bogus. She really had to 'act' not just recite dramatic or clever dialog, of which there is little or none in the movie given the subject matter.

It has been nominated for a Golden Globe, but they often go to foreign movies so she might have a harder time there....

Of course I also had to wonder about the logistics of making the movie. She has said in interviews that she was quite cold much of the time, but given the scope of the distances traveled in shooting all the scenes and given that she was actually there in them, they couldn't have gone out and just got 'process shots' to later be stuck into scenes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail

Spoiler alert: this features prominently at the ending. I had never heard of it:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_the_Gods_%28modern_structure%29