Where is away we go set

Talk about being knocked for a loop! What are Burt and Verona going to do? Although the reuni on with Lily is a joyous one, this is not the life Verona wants to lead. This is where they want to be. And these are the people they want to have as friends as they venture into adulthood raising their own child.

Or is it? One night out with Tom and Munch puts a different spin on things, forcing Burt and Verona onward in their search for home and hearth. And Verona finally knows where hers lies. As Verona, she is mesmerizing. But it is her emotion that gets to you. According to Rudolph, she drew on her own life experience for carving out Verona, particularly as to the loneliness and loss of losing a parent. Rudolph is the daughter of singer Minnie Riperton, who passed away when Rudolph was only 7 years old.

And without giving away any spoilers, there is one scene for which words fail me to describe the emotional impact of the sequence. Suffice it to say, Rudolph touches your heart as she is seen standing in solitude with tears streaming down her cheeks. There are no words. No dialogue. Just Rudolph as Verona. The tacit simplicity of that scene is eloquent beauty. Just remembering that seen brings tears to my eyes even now. He is such a little boy with so many dreams and not having a clue about what he wants to be when he grows up.

Together, Krasinski and Rudolph make you care about the couple. The common themes are the breakdown of family life and people turning against the society in which they're reared; the common tone is a guarded despair tinged with dark humour.

Away We Go belongs to that branch of the road movie in which characters examine their pasts to confront present dilemmas, like the doctor driving across Sweden in Bergman's Wild Strawberries and the ageing couple visiting their scattered children in Ozu's Tokyo Story , or that series of American pictures coming out of Julien Duvivier's Un carnet du bal , most recently, Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers , in which the main characters trace old friends and relations.

Here, a cheerful, somewhat disorganised couple in their early 30s, Verona Maya Rudolph and bespectacled college dropout Burt John Krasinski , head off in a battered Volvo from their run-down immobile home in the woods of Colorado to see his parents. Impending parenthood has persuaded them to reconsider their behaviour and their curious jobs affect their attitudes: she's an artist specialising in depicting the interior of the human body; he advises on insurance futures.

He proposes marriage regularly and she always refuses. Her parents are 12 years dead and in search of family stability Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be near Burt's mother and father. But suddenly, these two leftover hippy types announce they're renting out their house to spend two years in Antwerp.

So Verona and Burt embark on a journey to find the perfect place to raise the daughter they're expecting, a disillusioning odyssey that takes them to Arizona, the Midwest, Canada, Florida and South Carolina. We think at first that they're a rather odd pair in the way they dress and behave. But by the end we see they're as endearing and kindly as the scatty young couple played by Philip Davis and Ruth Sheen at the centre of Mike Leigh's High Hopes.

In Phoenix, they meet Verona's old work colleague Allison Janney , a loud-mouth misfit with a thuggish husband given to apocalyptic thoughts and greyhound racing. Burt Farlander and Verona De Tessant are a couple steeped in eccentricity and irregularity but are very much in love. So when they find out that Verona is pregnant they seem to be taking it in their stride.

Verona is enjoying pregnancy, Burt is already practicing skill that he believes a good father should have, and they living in the same state as Burt's parents, Jerry and Gloria, so that their prospective daughter can have grandparents.

However, things are shaken up when Burt and Verona go to dinner at Jerry and Gloria's house, as Burt's parents reveal a surprising piece of news. They have decided to move to Antwerp in Belguim a month before the baby is due, scuppering Burt and Verona's plans of having their children's grandparents around.

Because Verona lost her parents when she was relatively young, she finds this news very hard to take, but the resilient couple quickly find a way to turn it in to a positive. It becomes obvious that this is what the pair needed, as they decide to embark on a search for the right place for them to raise their daughter. They go to every place they can think of, meeting family and friends along the way, with laughter and sadness, this is a road trip the couple will never forget.

Adventure Comedy Drama Romance. Rated R for language and some sexual content. Did you know Edit. Trivia For the brief oral sex scene, Maya Rudolph wore four pairs of biking shorts under the gown. Goofs After Verona is refused admission on her flight from Phoenix to Madison, she and Burt take the train from a station clearly marked 'Phoenix'. Phoenix is the largest US city without intercity rail service.

Quotes Beckett : Babies like to breathe, and they're good at hiding it. User reviews Review. Top review. Definitely worth a Go. 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 a baby on the way who for the first time find themselves wondering about where they fit in the world and what they'll be like as parents.

They're hopeful, but you can see the fear plastered on their face. First time screenwriters and husband and wife Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida waste no time in making them two identifiable people, and in the way they survey life's odd, complicated, and wonderful little moments, "Go" never fails at being a funny, thoughtful and heartwarming little gem that you'll fall in love with.

Not only that but any roots they have in their little Connecticut town are about to be uprooted because Burt's parents a funny Jeff Daniels and Catherine O'Hara are moving to Belgium a month before the baby is born. Having no reason to stay where they are, they pack up and take a road trip, stopping anywhere they know they might find a familiar face. Phoenix, Tucson, Madison, Montreal, and Miami are all marked for a trial period as the two try to figure out who and what they would like to raise their family around.

It's an odd blend of dealing with life's what-ifs and meeting a variety of broad characters. Allison Janney is the funniest of the broad, playing Verona's former boss Lily, an abrasive alcoholic who enjoys point-blank degrading her children and her crazy, paranoid husband, nicely played by Jim Gaffigan.

Maggie Gyllenhaal also shows up later on as Burt's zen-like cousin who takes family closeness to a whole new level, i. Mendes balances scenes like these perfectly with the richly written script. A scene between Verona and her sister Carmen Ejogo where the ushering in of new life forces them to confront the death of their parents, and another where Burt's brother Paul Schneider , whose wife has just abandoned him and their young daughter, encourages Burt to think about the strength of his own bond with Verona have a rare power that speaks to the importance of family.

There is a point where the interspersing of comedy and drama starts to get old but luckily a third act of genuine lessons and happy mediums lead to some of the movies best scenes. And these are star-making turns from Krasinski and Rudolph. He has a doofy charm that gets a couple good laughs but he also makes Burt a loveably doting and comforting boyfriend there for Verona no matter what.

And Rudolph is a big surprise here as she turns in a performance of maturity, vulnerability, and depth.