Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

Plotzle Original · O74 · May 17, 2026 · Adventure / Drama

Six plot descriptions for Where the Wild Things Are (2009). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A teenage girl runs away from her foster home in Detroit and hitchhikes to Yellowstone where she camps illegally and avoids park rangers while journaling about the landscape.
2. Two estranged brothers inherit their father's failing zoo in rural Oregon and spend one summer caring for the animals while negotiating whether to sell the property to developers.
3. A lonely boy escapes his troubled home life by sailing to an island inhabited by giant emotional creatures who crown him their king and build forts together while working through their interpersonal conflicts.
4. A wildlife photographer documents endangered species in the Amazon rainforest and befriends a local guide whose village depends on logging the same territory they are trying to protect.
5. A recently sober woman joins a wilderness therapy program in the Smoky Mountains where participants hike for thirty days and she forms an unlikely bond with a teenage runaway.
6. An anthropologist studying nomadic tribes in Mongolia becomes embedded with a family for six months and her presence gradually alters their traditional migration patterns and creates tension within the group.