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Dominican Rep. Around the Bend
- Original title
- Around the Bend
- Year
- 2004
- Running time
- 83 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- "Around the Bend" is inspired by the relationship between writer-director Jordan Roberts and the absentee father he barely knew. It tells the story of four generations of men who are suddenly brought together by the chance to uncover the truth about their family's past. The journey will take them out on the road to a world full of surprises-some comic, some dramatic, and all of them personal.
Jason Lair (Josh Lucas) is a simple man with a simple wish: a normal life. This isn't an easy goal for the mild-mannered bank employee: Jason is newly separated from his wife, who has left him to care for their six-year-old son Zach (Jonah Bobo) while she paints in Nepal, and his ailing grandfather Henry (Oscar® winner Michael Caine), a former archaeologist close to death, who is investigating alternative rituals for his impending funeral ("I'm not going in the ground!" he protests.) So when Jason's estranged father and Henry's son, Turner (Oscar® winner Christopher Walken), whose checkered past includes exploits from the musical to the criminal, pays the family an unexpected visit, nothing is "simple" or "normal" in Jason's life anymore.
In the coming days, the somewhat reluctant Lair men will embark on a trip not only through the mythic beauty of the Desert Southwest, but across the family's own rocky emotional landscape. Forced together by a deep loss, these very different people find a great deal along the way-devastating secrets, amazing discoveries and, just as Henry wanted... each other.- Awards
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2004: Montréal World Film Festival: Special Grand Prize of the Jury & Best Actor (Walken)2004: Satellite Awards: Actor in a Supporting Rol, Drama.
- Critics' reviews
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"A bittersweet relationship drama with enough honest emotion and gentle humor to move even the steeliest heart."
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"The movie, unfortunately, doesn't really work; it's one of those films where the characters always seem to be Behaving, as if ordinary life has to be jacked up into eccentricity."
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"Slick, well-packaged emotional drama."
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"Mr. Walken performs with a marvelously minimalist precision."
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"If nothing else, director/screenwriter Jordan Roberts knows good music. If only we could say the same about his script."
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