![]() ![]() ![]() "Leif and Karen and I were inextricably bound as siblings, but we spoke and saw one another rarely, our lives profoundly different." Cheryl states in her memoir that following her mother's death, she and her siblings grew distant from one another. EW.comĬheryl does have a brother named Leif, but she also has an older sister, Karen, who is absent from the movie. She meets the friendly hiker Greg, a female hiker, and a trio of young men whom she refers to as the "Three Young Bucks." In the book, she also encounters a community of people hiking the trail, and she walks with some of them for brief distances. Cutting and condensing events was somewhat inevitable due to the movie's two-hour running time.įor example, in the movie, Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) has three significant encounters with people hiking the trail. Some of the events have also been reordered time-wise or combined. The movie also cuts out a few other important people, namely Cheryl's older sister Karen and her stepfather Glenn (his name was changed to Eddie in the book). ![]() A noticeable difference is that Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) makes less stops on her journey and doesn't encounter as many people as she does in the book. Screenwriter Nick Hornby stuck fairly close to Cheryl Strayed's memoir. ![]()
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