Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Simply A Masterpiece

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

This movie is about how a young woman who has suffered much in her brief life-mother dying of cancer, abusive alcoholic father, drug addiction, sex addition-discovers her true self and her will to live by undertaking an arduous three month long walking trip along l along Americas West coast.- the Pacific Crest trail The movie is watchable but is marred by too much cursing, graphic depictions of sex and bad language.

The only reason I gave it 1 is because I can't score it under 0. Can you believe it? Hollywood decided to make a film about, a woman behaving like a prostitute and in real life the actual woman who done it, in her interview she said, it was a spiritual journey for her. Yeah by sleeping around with so many men.. Is that a spiritual journey for you??? This world is so full of filth and disgust and Hollywood encourages it by making these kind of films. And to Reese Witherspoon: Really?? You couldn't choose to make another film instead of that garbage? Anyway, I guess it does say a lot about a person about his/her choices that makes.

When the credits rolled I asked myself: "Why have I just watched this film"? A young woman soul-searching after her mother's death ... OK, so Reese Witherspoon is very pretty, but it had to be more than that, and so it was. I think it helps that I backpacked myself - meeting a wide variety of eccentric characters in my journeys(but without the sex, unfortunately). I empathised with Cheryl; enjoyed the score and the cinematography. Plus, there was a bit of feel-good factor towards the end ... and what is wrong with that?

Quite simply, if you want jaw dropping action or revelations then this movie is not for you. I walked with her. Through the entire film. I was there. I saw her pain and felt it. It didn't have me sobbing into my hanky because it was not a pityfest. It was plain and simple. This woman wanted to change or die. I wanted her to make it. I watched her suffer and rage and fall to pieces. Then i watched her get up, dust off and take on another day. I was this woman and I wanted to make it to. Reese Witherspoon as always gave it her all. The only reason it dropped a point was some of the writing was far too small and squiggly for me to read so I had to pause it to check what it said. If you are feeling a bit lost or displaced or at a crossroads in life, give this a watch and see her STRYDE