Away We Go

Having directed the cynical existential parables American Beauty, Road To Perdition and Revolutionary Road, Sam Mendes' display of his true versatility and capacity for romantic idealism is a film for pleasant people to see. Pleasant people also go to Transformers: Revenge... Read more

Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph), an unmarried but devoted-to-each-other couple, are expecting a baby girl in three months. They moved near Burt's parents (Jeff Daniels and Catherine O'Hara) because they wanted to give their child loving relatives in close... Read more

I love Sam Mendes; I'll say that now. What else do I love? Comedies with indie quirk. And that leads me to Away We Go, a film that embodies the genre completely as evidenced by the trailer with its awkward laughs,... Read more

Away We Go (2009), directed by Sam Mendes, is a road movie with a difference. Many road movies involve strangers met by the protagonist as he or she travels from place to place. Away We Go sends the two main characters... Read more

By her own admission, they're "f***-ups". In Billy Bragg's "Must I Paint You A Picture", everybody's favorite Cockney-accented socialist folksinger warbles, "The most important decisions in life are made between two people in bed," and Verona DeTessant(Maya Rudolph), an artist, paints... Read more

(Synopsis) Verona (Maya Rudolph) and Burt (John Krasinski) are an unmarried couple in their thirties, who are expecting their first child. They live in Denver close to Burt's parents, since Verona's parents had passed away. They thought their life was going... Read more

Director Sam Mendes last movie showed a couple deteriorating right in front of our eyes in "Revolutionary Road", and in a way he makes up for that depressing slog with "Away We Go". The couple here are upstarts, two people with... Read more

The style of Away We Go very much reminded me of a late 1960s/early 1970s film. I kept thinking of Harold and Maude or The Graduate, where the lead characters learn about themselves as their relationships grow and change. There were... Read more

The ramshackle tone and episodic structure of this 2009 road dramedy doesn't scream Sam Mendes ("American Beauty", "Revolutionary Road") to me, but his film-making style becomes more discerning as the journey of the two protagonists deepens emotionally with each succeeding stop... Read more

Just six months after introducing us to one of the most unlikable and miserable movie couples viewers had ever seen in "Revolutionary Road", director Sam Mendes takes us on a little detour from his usual style/genre and allows us to meet... Read more