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Away We Go

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Away We Go

John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Catherine O'Hara

A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an ass...( read more  read more... )ortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.

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  • LitelBluHli
    November 17, 2009
    LitelBluHli
    It was somewhat slow, but I think it was meant to be that way. The acting of John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph were done well. It had it's funny, sweet, and sad moments. Overall, not a bad movie.
  • mrpopcorn
    October 6, 2009
    mrpopcorn
    "I love my babies. Why would I want to push them away from me?"

    A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment ...( read more)of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.

    REVIEW

    Winning comedy/drama with Krasinski & Rudolph ? perfectly cast ? as a young couple of intellectuals whose impending birth of their first child has them navel gazing and wondering the best avenue of raising them by going on a road trip visiting family and friends, discovering there are no easy short-cuts and plenty of pit-falls along the bumpy ride into the heart's wonderings. The sharply funny and smart screenplay by writers Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida provide many moments for the protagonists to mingle with some odd and perhaps bleak outlets to parenthood and life in general. Director Sam Mendes wisely lets the comic cards fall where they may with his gifted leads and inspired ensemble. One of the year's best films and one of the best on relationships in general.
  • Cinema101
    August 9, 2009
    Cinema101
    Some of the best relationship advice ever put to film.
  • Galeocerdo
    July 29, 2009
    Galeocerdo
    Taking its cue from other recent movies about expectant couples, but not obviously so, the film is more adult in its conflicts than 'Juno' and less vulgar than 'Knocked Up'. It is really a film about searching; for answers, for security, for a place of belonging; and the uncertai...( read more)nty of it all gives the film an element of bittersweet truth I found quite endearing. The screenplay maintains a delicate balance of laughable absurdity and wistful melancholy, and though Sam Mendes' direction is not quite so subtle, the film plays to one of his strengths: getting great performances from his actors. The actors are perfect and genuine, from the leads to the supporting cast. Their trials are uniquely their own, their stories personal, but the lessons they learn are touchingly familiar.
  • her69eyes
    July 5, 2009
    her69eyes
    It'd be an overstatement to suggest that "Away We Go" has given us an innovative new way in which romantic dramedies can be told, but I cannot express enough just how refreshing it is to see a film that avoids many of the typical processions of modern romantic films. Neither part...( read more)ner ever cheats on the other. The couple never splits up due to a misunderstanding only to reunite with a romantic act of extreme scale. It's simply a film about people in love - they are in the beginning, and they are in the end.

    The film is by the highly polarizing Sam Mendes, who brought us both "American Beauty" and "Revolutionary Road". Both films were criticized for being vague, pretentious, and self-important. "Away We Go" has now been criticized in much the same way for it's oblivious lovers who spend much of the film mocking every family they come across. A.O. Scott, one of my favorite voices in modern criticism, went as far as saying that the film hates you. I don't know about that. Sure, the couple here condescends their fair share of daytime alcoholics and new age self-righteous mothers, but is the film really mean-spirited? In a summer where the biggest comedy is a film involving African American drug dealers, effeminate Asian gangs with a great handle on karate, and nagging wives, I find it hard to be offended by this one.

    Verona (Maya Rudolph) and Burt (John Krasinski) are a loving 30-something couple expecting their first child. They live in a shabby home with windows of cardboard and wonder where they went wrong. When they discover that Burt's parents have planned to move to Belgium before the child is born, the couple realizes that they have no reason to stay where they are any longer. And so, they go on a road trip to meet up with family members and friends, each illustrating the ways people react to parenthood. Some are completely unresponsive to their children, others are simply unable to have them. As the trip progresses, both Verona and Burt begin to fear their oncoming responsibility and the stability of their relationship.

    Rudolph and Krasinski are both good company, but it's the supporting players that steal the film. Catherine O'Hara, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney, Jim Gaffigan, and Maggie Gyllenhaal are all hysterical, while Chris Messina and Paul Schneider both succeed in roles which aren't played for laughs.

    I can see why some might react negatively to the film. Sam Mendes is still a director that, for whatever reason, rubs people the wrong way with a smugness i've not seen (alright, maybe I did in "American Beauty"). Also, it's easy to tease the "indie" tendencies of the film - not the least of which being the grating soundtrack by folk artist Alexi Murdoch. However, if a film is determined to appeal so relentlessly to hipsters, atleast it retains it's credibility with a well-written script and wonderfully talented performers. We can reserve that complaint for "500 Days of Summer", which sets a new standard for indie with a trailer that begins by professing it's love to The Smiths. This one is authentic and heartfelt, a film that'll both move you and make you laugh more than just about anything else this year.
  • sagapart12
    December 16, 2009
    sagapart12
    I'm not sure entirely why, but I just despised this movie. I've never been so uncomfortable while watching a movie.... well maybe taxidermia but that wasn't supposed to be comfortable. This movie wasn't funny it was just inappropriate, you can't make suffocating baby jokes in a f...( read more)ilm thats supposed to be romantic. It just gave me a headache. Other then a few genuinely funny parts and some nice dialogue, the whole film felt overtly forced. Like another juno, where i feel like the writers are selling me what they think I would be moved by. A bunch of force-fed relationship crisis bull. Bah. I digress.
  • aryaprabawa
    December 14, 2009
    aryaprabawa
    This would have been a wonderful little film if one could look past its pretentiousness. Unfortunately, I couldn?t. So for me it was unbearably irritating to look at the characters? overly comical gesture or to listen to their obnoxiously obvious dialogues about marriage and rela...( read more)tionship. And if that?s implying watching a bunch of clowns with a bit sense of wisdom, that?s probably because it is. But even the implied image could have made a much more interesting, and better, film this one so desperately tried to be. The only things I like in this one is Maya Rudolph's portrayal as the only lovable character and Ellen Kuras' cinematography as the only soft subtlety you'll find in this film.
  • sweetduckers
    December 13, 2009
    sweetduckers
    Wicked hilarious. I saw it like three times, and have shared it with my loved one so It was so worth it's weight in salt.
  • BenBBB
    December 13, 2009
    BenBBB
    Sans doute pas le meilleur film de Sam Mendes, mais un film qui reste très bon. Le couple est extrêmement attachant et surtout très réaliste et moderne. Pas mal de maladresses, et surtout une impression globale de 4 séquences juxtaposées, mais les thèmes soulevés et les (tentativ...( read more)es de) réponses apportées méritent largement le détour.
  • goutamjay
    December 13, 2009
    goutamjay
    A good movie..worth a watch when you are settled and ready for a unorthodox comedy. Mind you its not a love tale.
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