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A Road Trip to Somewhere
Sam Mendes’ Away We Go hits theaters this month
John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph play a young couple searching for happiness in Away We Go
Director Sam Mendes delivers Away We Go this month. After quickly becoming one of most revered directors in the last decade with 1999’s American Beauty, Mendes’ films have run the gambit from dark and foreboding (Road To Perdition) to a study on modern day soldiers (Jarhead) to this film, his first venture where the humor isn’t underlined or hidden.
Like the Mendes directed Revolutionary Road, Away We Go is about a young couple searching for happiness. Though, the type of films couldn’t be more different in feel and themes. The film was penned by husband and wife team Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida (Eggers also helped pen the much anticipated Where The Wild Things Are due out later this year). Perhaps the husband and wife dynamic is what lead to the “pairing off and moving forward” theme of Away We Go.
Burt and Verona are a young couple, played by John Krasinski (The Office)and Saturday Night Live’s Maya Rudolph, who are expecting a child. Having not even figured out the “small things” in life and with the child’s grand parents moving to a foreign country the couple decides to take a cross country road trip to find their new home. A new place to settle and raise their baby. In a recent interview Rudolph commented on her love of the idea of “home” in this film. Certainly the idea of family as something that you can both choose and what you make it is a theme in Away We Go. Along the way the couple meets up with various people they know, studying different families and seeing how “they do it”.
Featuring a host of supporting performances from funny ladies Allison Janney (Juno) and Catherine O’Hara (Best in Show) to Maggie Gyllenhaal (whose character doesn’t like to put her baby in a stroller due to the act of “pushing my baby away from me”), Away We Go may be this summer’s sleeper hit appealing to people in there late 20s and early 30s who, with their life and family ahead of them, may want to take a road trip themselves.
Opens June 5.