There are a few movies I would own. That's my criteria at the end of a movie. Would I buy this for my film library? (I have a film library but its titles don't necessarily reflect anything other than they were either a great bargain on a sale table, a gift or a fairly decent bargain on a sale table. With the exception of Seabiscuit and the March of the Penguins.)
But in my mythic film library I would add Away We Go. (And Lars and the Real Girl, Little Miss Sunshine, Bottle Rocket, Princess Bride, Heartburn, Hannah and Her Sisters, Juno (maybe) and Il Postino, A Man for All Seasons, Lawrence of Arabia (which was a gift) and Babette's Feast.)
This movie is about a couple who become pregnant and go looking for a home (town) in which to raise their child. It is a heartbreakingly dear movie as they visit Phoenix, Tucson, Madison, Montreal and Miami in search of a home and their own bearings along the way. I like Sam Mendes (American Beauty) and I love this film and I want my children to see it.
The couple is tender, smart, vulnerable, real and drop dead funny. It could make me start watching The Office to see John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph (she's not in The Office but I wanted to write her name.)
Saturday, June 27, 2009
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