Writer-director Martin Hynes’ road movie is a cute, slight tale of a teenager who hits the road in hopes of figuring out the meaning of life.
Raised by his hippie-ish mother in Eugene, Oregon, unworldly 19-year-old Mercer White (Lou Taylor Pucci) manages to keep it together through her lingering death from cancer. But eight months later, while reading Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for school, he snaps: Feeling trapped and directionless, Mercer steals a car and takes off, ostensibly in search of Arlen (Jsu Garcia), the much older brother he barely knows but wants to inform of their mother’s death. Along the way, Mercer crosses paths ...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins