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Meet Silas Colter, a gruff, reclusive mountain man with the social charm of a splintered axe handle. Silas is the last person you’d expect to become anybody’s mentor -- least of all Tinsley and Mattie Wilde, (Cali Scolari and Lydia Pearl Pentz), two privileged sisters ripped out of 1932 high society and dropped into a world where the rules are simple: adapt, or get swallowed whole. Rotten Tomatoes’ synopsis of the new hit comedy The Wilde Girls boils the setup down to its essential tension: the girls are “stranded and clueless,” and their “only shot at survival” is teaming up with a mountain man who doesn’t do sympathy.
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That’s the hook - and it’s why the film’s arrival on Prime Video plays like more than another platform drop. In one of the film’s own cheekiest announcements, the official social post doesn’t simply say “now streaming.” It issues a dare: watch it on Prime “without commercials” - “before a bear eats you.”
The Mountain Man Who Steals the Movie
Silas Colter isn’t written as a warm blanket. He’s a corrective force - an old-world survivalist dropped into a screwball premise where two girls accustomed to servants and security suddenly discover the wilderness has no customer service desk.
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And he’s not just a plot device. Press coverage and cast/crew interviews position Silas as the character who hands the movie its edge: the brutal practicality, the deadpan reality checks, the grounded “here’s how you actually live” counterweight to the girls’ escalating panic and privilege.
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Teddy Smith: Stand-Up Instincts, Survivalist Delivery
The role lands in the hands of Teddy Smith, the New York stand-up comic turned scene-stealer, who plays Silas as a “misanthrope” recluse - someone who doesn’t so much “help” as issue hard-won instructions and let the girls decide whether they prefer to argue or survive. Smith as Silas Colter, anchors the trio dynamic at the heart of the film’s wilderness run. The story isn’t just about surviving nature; it’s also a “fish-out-of-water crime comedy,” with danger beyond the trees - setting Silas up as not only a guide, but a shield, a catalyst, and occasionally the blunt instrument of truth.
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The Bottom Line
The Wilde Girls may arrive as a period screwball survival comedy, but Silas Colter is the character who makes it feel like an event: the unexpected mentor, the deadpan antidote to privilege, the mountain man who doesn’t care about your backstory - only whether you can make it to morning.
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And now, Prime Video just unleashed him.
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