Away We Go - Movie Review and Synopsis

A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover “home” on their own terms for the first time.

Four words I never thought I’d use in the same sentence: Sam Mendes summer comedy. With a screenplay by the marvelous husband-and-wife duo Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, I feel like Mendes will make the shift away from heavyweight dramas with his love for important themes intact. May his process make Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski actual-real movie stars, too. Why am I already seeing Eggers and Vida on awards podiums, spreading the 826 Valencia gospel?

Rated R for language and some sexual content.

Director: Sam Mendes
Stars: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney
Studio: Focus Features
Release Date: 25 June 2009 (Greece)
Genre: Comedy, Drama