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The Revenant

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While exploring uncharted wild American frontier in 1823,  Hugh Glass (Leonardo Dicaprio) becomes severely wounded in a bear attack and is left for dead by his own troop of explorers. Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back home to his beloved family. Grief-stricken and fue led by vengeance, Glass treks through the wintry terrain to track down John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), the former confidant responsible for abandoning him. Yes, Hugh Glass was a real frontierman who was almost  killed by wilderness in pursuit of vengeance against the men who left him for dead. But how much of the story after that was real? Time calls it, "A fictionalized version of the tale was recently brought to life by Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu ... based on the 2002 Michael Punke novel of the same name" . Glass joined a team headed up by Andrew Henry traveling up the Missouri River and the Grand River of modern-day South Dakota. It was on that trip that a grizzly b