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AWAY WE GO = ***
“Rocky Road Trip”
Director Sam Mendes is a master at slice-of-suburban-life cinema. He followed his Oscar-winning “American Beauty” with last year’s “Revolutionary Road.” Now, with “Away We Go”, Mendes’ road-trip drama allows us to visit multiple suburban lifestyles from Arizona to Wisconsin to Florida and even Montreal, Canada.
The movie’s unlikely leads are John Krasinski (who had a very small part in Mendes’ “Jarhead”) and Saturday Night Live’s Maya Rudolph who proves herself a fine dramatic actress here. Rudolph delivers the kind of Oscar-qualifying emotion that voters might notice if the film were being released in December instead of in June.
At six months pregnant, Rudolph and Krasinski set out on a suburban odyssey to try and determine where they will live after the baby is born. Along the way these characters exchange a lot of sharp, crisp dialogue courtesy of writers Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. Most of it is set to forgettable tunes from newcommer Alexi Murdoch. (When George Harrison’s “What Is Life” comes on, it’s easy to hear just how below average Murdoch’s songs are by comparison.)
“Away We Go” has enough really good moments to make it a truly enjoyable experience. But if you’ve seen the trailer, which has been playing in theatres for a few months now, you’ve already seen many of the film’s best pieces. The trailer is like one big spoiler. If you’ve seen it, you already know why Maggie Gyllenhaal hates baby strollers. You already know that Krasinski’s parents will move to Belgium two months before their grandchild is born. And you already know that Allison Janney’s children don’t listen to her when she talks to them.
DVD Watch: In 1996’s “Flirting With Disaster”, Patricia Arquette is pregnant and Ben Stiller is having trouble coming up with a name for their baby. So they embark on a hilarious cross-country road trip to trace Stiller’s roots and find his birth mother. This road comedy has an all-star cast including Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin, Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Jenkins.
Michael The Moviegoer
