Away We Go

4.00
    Away We Go
    2009

    Synopsis

    Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Veronica expecting their first child, Burt's parents decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.

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    Cast

    • John KrasinskiBurt Farlander
    • Maya RudolphVerona De Tessant
    • Carmen EjogoGrace De Tessant
    • Catherine O'HaraGloria Farlander
    • Jeff DanielsJerry Farlander
    • Allison JanneyLily
    • Jim GaffiganLowell
    • Samantha PryorAshley
    • Conor CarrollTaylor
    • Maggie GyllenhaalLN

    Recommendations

    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      Rudolph, a comic force on "SNL," can speak volumes with the tilt of an eyebrow. She and Krasinski, of "The Office," are absolutely extraordinary. Ditto the film, which sneaks up and floors you.
    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      Though Away We Go lacks the screwball unpredictability of something like "Flirting With Disaster," it compensates with a unexpected depth of feeling, a novelist’s (or memoirist’s) sense of detail, and a panoramic view of what home means.
    • 80

      The New Yorker

      Some of the episodes are ripely satirical, others almost heartbreaking. Allison Janney appears as a coarse drunk who taunts her kids; Maggie Gyllenhaal is a pushy New Age mom whose aggressive virtue saps the strength of everyone around her.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      Away We Go is not as dramatically wrenching as "Revolutionary Road," but it's unquestionably more enjoyable.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      A gilded entry in the cinema du quirk. It's a movie that invites you, all too often, to feel superior to the people on screen.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Though it's nice to see Mendes take a looser, not quite so studied approach to his filmmaking, some stops along the way -- like a detour to visit Burt's suddenly single brother (Paul Schneider) -- feel dramatically off-course.
    • 50

      New York Daily News

      If we learn anything from Away We Go, it’s that a lack of ambition might not be such a bad thing after all.
    • 40

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Travel--finding the self by escaping the self--is central to the novels of Eggers and Vida, but Mendes knows where he's going before he gets there. And so the subject of Away We Go turns out to be not travel but child-rearing, which is at best well-meaning and anguished and at worst downright monstrous.

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