Away We Go

20092009
RR
1h 38min

Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski in Away We Go (2009)

A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family

Adventure Comedy Drama

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... Read allA 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 thei... Read allA 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 ... Read allA 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... Read allA 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.

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Awards
- 3 wins & 10 nominations

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maya Rudolph, and John Krasinski in Away We Go (2009)

Sam Mendes and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Away We Go (2009)

Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski in Away We Go (2009)

Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski in Away We Go (2009)

Carmen Ejogo and Maya Rudolph in Away We Go (2009)

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Josh Hamilton, Maya Rudolph, and John Krasinski in Away We Go (2009)

Sam Mendes in Away We Go (2009)

Maggie Gyllenhaal in Away We Go (2009)

Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Maya Rudolph, and John Krasinski in Away We Go (2009)

Jeff Daniels in Away We Go (2009)

Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski in Away We Go (2009)

Catherine O'Hara and Maya Rudolph in Away We Go (2009)

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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. —Ciaran

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Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for language and some sexual content
Parents guide

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. I put a pillow over a baby. I thought she wasn't breathing, but she was. She was sneaky, but I'll try again.

Connections
Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Duplicity/Knowing/I Love You, Man (2009)

Soundtracks
The Good Times
Composed by Guy Fletcher
Courtesy of APM Music

Top review

9/10

A movie based on a promise.

I feel that the film makes a great connection between love and the experience of watching a movie. The end of this film is unbelievably right, given the nature of human experience and its relationship to the ideals that we construct in our heads. This movie captures the essence of both love and art together. We are bound to both love and art by a promise that we are pretty sure will be broken from time to time, just like the promises that the two people in the movie make to each other. But as human beings, we so much want the promise to come true that we will make it again and again. Whenever I watch a movie, I renew my own type of promise, one that I know will be broken, or at least will never live up to my own expectations. The characters in this movie go through the process of being broken by love (mostly through a sort of family and place Odyssey) in order to realize that the promises we make to each other can only be broken if we want them to be. We can love each other until we stop believing, and we can bring ourselves to watch a love story that keeps that same promise to the viewer. Sam Mendes has made the only romantic comedy he could ever make as a director: one that respects the viewer as well as the characters.

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nepaljeff
Nov 14, 2009

Release date
- June 26, 2009 (United States)
Countries of origin
- United States
- United Kingdom
Language
- English
Also known as
- Untitled Sam Mendes Project
Filming locations
- Leesburg, Florida, USA
Production companies
See more company credits at IMDbPro

Budget
- $17,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $9,451,946
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $130,411
- Jun 7, 2009
Gross worldwide
- $15,779,455

See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

Runtime
- 1h 38min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
- DTS
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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