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Leave No Trace
You can love someone with your whole heart and still not be able to live in their world. 🌲
Who it's for
Tom and her father Will share a close, loving bond, but it is built around his need to stay away from people.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Leave No Trace is a 2018 drama directed by Debra Granik, adapted from Peter Rock's novel My Abandonment. Will, a military veteran living with post-traumatic stress, lives off-grid with his teenage daughter Tom in Forest Park near Portland, Oregon. After authorities discover them, the pair are placed in housing on a Christmas tree farm, but Will grows uneasy with settled life and they flee back into the wilderness.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Family separation and a father's trauma.
Age: PG (thematic material throughout; MPAA)
Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together,Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter XXVII
