Seeing this again with my wife recently was a real treat...it was and is a lovely and sweet Independent Romantic Comedy-Drama...amazing that I wrote this almost exactly a year ago...a day before my anniversary with my own "Verona", the lovely and talented Shelly...it kind of echoes our own gypsy journey of the past twenty years, not to mention our nearly five year adventure as parents of our sweet Breianna! So enjoy and don't forget...lots of great Indy stuff out there:
Sweet and engaging, Away We Go is the kind of Indy comedy that entices me back again and again to Independent film. Goofy and kooky with lots of opportunity for its very good cast to stretch their chops, Away We Go is the off beat story of Burt and Verona who are having a baby and are searching for a place of emotional security and deepness to have that child, in short looking for community with either friends or family. This search makes the film essentially a road picture made up of separate but lightly connected episodes. Burt and Verona have the opportunity to sample the family communities of their various family and friends and come to a momentous but not necessarily surprising conclusion. The enduring grace and light of this film is the relationship of Burt and Verona who love each other deeply but wonder if they are truly doing a "good job" preparing their lives for another. Worthy of note are Jeff Daniels and Catherine O'Hara as Burt's rather laid back parents. As with most independents, this film has a pace and plot that develops within a more gradual sense of time...so most main stream rom-com lovers may feel frustrated with this.
Really a 4.5 star film, Away We Go quietly earns it's A- grade. 10/05/09
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