Synopsis
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.
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Cast
- Martin SheenTom
- Emilio EstevezDaniel
- Deborah Kara UngerSarah
- Yorick van WageningenJoost
- James NesbittJack
- Tchéky KaryoCaptain Henri
- Ángela MolinaAngelica
- Carlos LealJean
- Simón AndreuDon Santiago
- Eusebio LázaroEl Ramón
Recommandations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
There's a contemplative loveliness to The Way, an affecting personal project both for Emilio Estevez, who wrote, directed, and plays a small role, and for his father, Martin Sheen. - 80
Empire
Gentle, likable and profoundly touching, it makes you want to dig out the hiking boots and make the same journey. - 75
Orlando Sentinel
It's a plucky film that covers a lot of ground and uncovers this wonderful, ancient ritual that people of many faiths and from all walks of life take on. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
It's a sweet and sincere family pilgrimage, even if a little too long and obvious. Audiences seeking uplift will find it here. - 67
The A.V. Club
Essentially, The Way starts out as "Eat Pray Love" and takes a long, surprising trip toward becoming David Lynch's "The Straight Story." And that's a longer trip than a mere monthlong trek across Spain. - 60
Time Out
It works better as an idyllic travelogue through northern Spain than as a familial drama; despite the real-life relationship between filmmaker and star. - 60
Chicago Reader
Estevez strains to prove his earnestness at every turn, undermining the film's good intentions with a surfeit of explanatory dialogue and a sappy adult-contemporary soundtrack. But for all his awkwardness Estevez is undeniably sincere, regarding both people and nature with disarming good will and maintaining a steady, soothing pace that allows the life lessons to resonate. - 50
Village Voice
As a director, Estevez exhibits a bland visual sense, but he does manage to convey some of his scenic locations' multifaceted textures. Mostly, though, his dramatically inert, spiritually generic The Way seems like it was far more fun to shoot than it is to endure.
