Into The Wild

Luckily, you know at the outset of the film that the kid dies, so you don't need to bother watching all two-and-a-half hours of it. But anyway, the kid does actually try to get Outta The Wild when he realizes he's going to starve to death, but the river has risen due to the change of seasons and is uncrossable, so he goes back to the bus and dies. Read the book, it's better if not only for the fact that it lacks the unending Eddie Vedder vocal warbling that drove me nuts during what of this film I was actually able to sit through.