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Below is the trailer for Away We Go. If I’d decided to produce my own hipster-becomes-parent indie flick, I don’t think I could’ve come up with better principals. It’s directed by Sam Mendes, who it appears was channeling Noah Baumbach fairly heavily (including choice of trailer music). But even more importantly, it was written by Dave Eggers and his wife, Vendela Vida. It stars full-beard Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, who you’d never guess would not only appear in a film like this, but actually look the part. There’s also an array of site-friendly co-stars, including Jeff Daniels, Catherine O’Hara, Alison Janney, and Maggie Gylleenhaal.

It’d be presumptuous to assume that the movie is based on Eggers and Vida’s own experiences, but there’s a certain verisimilitude in the trailer that suggests as much — a guy from suburban Illinois running in the circles he runs in with his wife (who is beautiful, but in my experience, kind of cold) during pregnancy. It looks like an indie-version of Knocked Up, and I kind of want to hug it.

Here’s the studio description of Away We Go:

Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski [“The Office’] and Maya Rudolph [“Saturday Night Live’]), as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise 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. The movie features the music of Alexi Murdoch.



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Comments

See, finally Jim gets the movie he deserves.
And was that Maggie Gylleenhaal? I swear I thought it was Kaylee from Firefly (I got a little excited to see her doing anything else)

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at March 18, 2009 10:47 AM

This looks sweet, but the music choice annoys the hell out of me. I'm not a big fan of the raspy whispery singer with plucked guitar genre.

Also, John Krasinski is hot with a beard or without. That's husband material there.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at March 18, 2009 10:48 AM

Holy hell, I must be having man-time of the month, but that trailer kind of made me tear up. If the trailer hits me in the right spot, what is the movie going to do?

Posted by: Snath at March 18, 2009 10:53 AM

Cant watch the ad because of my stupid work computer

BUT

looking at that picture of Jim from The Office


he is NOT a handsome man

I mean WOW.
I've never seen a hottie go from 'mrowl' to 'aargh!' so completely.

Posted by: nadine at March 18, 2009 10:54 AM

What If Knocked Up Were a Hipster Emo Flick?

Ellen Page and Michael Cera would have the lea...oh wait, that already happened.

Posted by: Mike R. at March 18, 2009 10:59 AM

I hate Sam Mendes, I hate that beard shit (and all the shitty music it generates) (and a visor? Seriously?), I don't care about John or Dave and I'd just rather watch a Noah Baumbach movie.

Posted by: Jay at March 18, 2009 11:00 AM

It's okay to give Jim Gaffigan a little site-friendly love too.

Posted by: branded at March 18, 2009 11:04 AM

Yep, that is not a good pic of JK. Too much lips and not enough ears. Mmmm.... ears.....

Posted by: Drake at March 18, 2009 11:23 AM

Jay, you've been very bitchy since you came back from Disney. Isn't that place supposed to have the opposite effect?

This trailer makes me happy. In the heart and in the pants. And I agree with Rusty, that Jim is some husband material indeed.

Posted by: Nicole at March 18, 2009 11:30 AM

Yay, Jim Gaffigan. I will see anything with Jim Gaffigan in it.

Posted by: Lucas at March 18, 2009 11:35 AM

Is he the guy who's hooking up with hot models on ___Tallmingle.com___ ? actually there're lots sexy people there, Online chat, blogs, forums, flirtation and messages! Start an May-December romance just a click away! Whether for heat or passion, you are gonna be surprised what you might be end with!!LOL :-)

Posted by: Owen at March 18, 2009 11:36 AM

This trailer made me happy too. I neither have nor want kids. Also, marriage schmarriage.

Posted by: tamatha at March 18, 2009 11:39 AM

They had me at Allison Janey.

Posted by: Beckylooo at March 18, 2009 11:45 AM

I didn't hate it and I fully expected to hate it. Needs less earnest guitar-plucking folkie and more inappropriate humor at the expense of children, but I don't hate it.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 18, 2009 12:15 PM

you've been very bitchy since you came back from Disney. Isn't that place supposed to have the opposite effect?

Hey, look at the subtitle of the site, lady!

(DRINK!)

But seriously, that'd only make sense if it was a place that I was happy to leave. And of course I'm not happy to leave it. And my best friend went home. And it's not cold outside. I told you I'm gonna be in a bad mood until September!

But really, I can't be blamed if people go around mentioning the asshole married to my wife and saying stupid things about "Watchmen", now can I?

Posted by: Jay at March 18, 2009 12:30 PM

Bored.

Posted by: Duane at March 18, 2009 12:30 PM

Don't be so soul-less... no one will judge you if you say the trailer makes you feel good.

IT. MAKES. ME. FEEL. GOOD.

And that's more than I can say about most things in my life.

Posted by: soto at March 18, 2009 12:35 PM

Looks like Janney is going to run away with this movie.

Posted by: jimbob at March 18, 2009 12:45 PM

I really don't like Maya Rudolph. She strikes me as a female Fred Armisen which is to say often funny but I never remember she is until it happens. Also, I didn't like what she did in Idiocracy. Poor casting right there.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at March 18, 2009 1:08 PM

Alison Janney tick
Catherine O'Hara tick
Maggie Gyllenhaal tick

BAM! I'm there.

Posted by: missh at March 18, 2009 1:24 PM

I . . . really want to see this. It's mostly for my unending clitwood over John Krasinski. He's just so tall and cute and

I have to go now.
Side topic, ladies? The SaSi? Look it up. It is AWESOME. I love how I choose to spend my spring break.

Posted by: Sharon at March 18, 2009 2:25 PM

Think I'm with Jay on this one. I can almost hear every box being checked off in the, 'Twee-Smug 'This is the Time of Life When We Learn About what REALLY Matters' Checklist'.

Whisper-Rasp Bumble-Pluckery on the acoustic. Treat your diptheria, or get out! Don't make me kick you in the throat.

'Hilariously Aloof' parents--are they liberal academics, too?

Mountain Man facial distress

The 'Other' couple. So shrill, so offbeat! Sew buttons.

Tales of: The Attuned and Sensitive Directionless

The upwardly-impoverished

Look at the colours, they're so MUTED!

Visual Trailer-Bytes: The one image meant to stop you, and batter you with the poetic significance of this one, silent moment encapsulates the message. It encapsulates people. It speaks the way we dream! They're standing together, moving forward, motionless, and silent. Any else getting laboured metaphor-pains? Oh-ho, did you see? I'm charming, yes.

Rom-Com Trope-u-lator: 'All systems go? Then take it to the bank, Father. Let's light this candle.'

It's all so damned significant, huh? Well, my heart's thoroughly stolen.

Pajiba Sacrilege Alert: Gyllenhaall has always seemed like that really boring, self-serious girl who got told she was smart once. And now she's all stuck-up about it. It beats the majority of these twaddle-headed actresses, running around like feckless swamp-donkeys. But that's not enough to get me to spend the money.

I do like a lot of the people in this film, but this looks so calculated.

What the mangoes does 'quirky' even mean? Sets me off.

And I Swear to FUCKING CHUTHLU: Your babies are a bore! If you start going on about your mucous plug, or your placenta previa, I'm punching you in your veiny, cold tit. You love your children. Wonderful, and so what? I have a niece and nephew, and they're babies. And it's perfectly right and natural that you don't give two ovaries in a bucket about them. I wouldn't have it any other way.

So, END THE SPATE OF BABY-MAMA DRAMADIES. END IT! END IT!!!!!!!

I've just marked 30-odd essays written by first- year university students. I can't get off of the ceiling. I can't get down.

I'm sorry for another hot-blooded rant. I'm far more even-tempered outside of this forum. But something about these types of films just grabs at me, and gets me all bilious. If I had shown up in LARS AND THE REAL GIRL... polystyrene bits and viscera, EVERYWHERE. I'll get back to work.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at March 18, 2009 3:54 PM

I like the premise of this movie, but the emo-angle of it kind of bugged me. Something like this is better handled through satire and dark humor. Cause there's noting like dark humor to help you make it through a pregnancy.

Jim with a beard: Yes! Jim in picture above: Gah!

Posted by: katy at March 18, 2009 3:55 PM

Jo Mama, I think I might love you. Wait, no, I totally do.

Posted by: Jen at March 18, 2009 4:22 PM

IT makes me feel good that there are some things I can always count on, this decade hasn't seem to have produced a bad flick about pregnancy, until they inevitably remake Rosemary's Baby, starring Katherine Heigl and Nicolas Cage.

Posted by: George at March 18, 2009 5:27 PM

Jo Mama, that was awesome.

Posted by: JureF at March 18, 2009 7:17 PM

Heh, thanks. I seem so unbalanced. George, don't give that movie the dignity of imagining it into existence. I'm sweating blood, here.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at March 18, 2009 9:36 PM

I will totally see this! I have to admit that I can't get enough of movies dealing with the new parenthood. I think we have a lot of strange shit to deal with as modern parents and that makes for some good movies. Don't get me wrong, I don't think all indie/parent/quirky (in any combination) type movies are all good. But when they are done well, I feel more satisfied watching the strange, hilarious, confusing, ever-evolving experiences that comprise twenty-first century life than when I watch nearly any other type of movie. Love it.

Oh yeah, and Krasinski for a whole movie doesn't hurt, either!

Posted by: AGO at March 19, 2009 3:50 AM

Wow. I must be getting old because this movie looks like it will get on my last nerve. Get married, get decent jobs, and do right by your child. This is no longer about you. You're 34 years old - it's time to grow the hell up.

Sorry. Living in NYC has given me zero patience for navel-gazing, flakey, 30-something parents.

Posted by: samantha t at March 19, 2009 8:10 AM

Self absorbed soon to be parents discuss endlessly how THEY will mess up the kid, how it will affect THEIR marriage, if THEY are doing the right thing

For frog's sake, just once i would like to see some hipster parents who care more about the ACTUAL human they have spawned than about THEIR goals/dreams/thoughts/insecurities ASSOCIATED with the baby

I hate Brooklyn sometimes; it makes me hate parents.

Posted by: misssmilla at March 19, 2009 4:57 PM

Missmilla - yup. Little do they know how swiftly those existential questions will be quelled after Junior arrives. After that, it will be "My boobs hurt", "I am really fucking tired", "I have never looked this bad", and "Does this child ever stop crying?".

Posted by: samantha t at March 20, 2009 7:39 AM

Alison janney!
Woooooooooooo!
Um....that's really all I have to contribute. To the discussion and to the human race.

Posted by: BiblioGeek at March 29, 2009 4:38 AM