Writer-director Bart Freundlich's postmodern road movie contains several sharply observed scenes but doesn't really add up to much, even after the 11th-hour revelation that gives purpose and a suggestion of meaning to the lead character's apparently aimless trip. On the day of his son's third birthday, Manhattan architect Cal (Billy Crudup) impulsively jumps into the family's sensible Volvo station wagon and hits the road. Handsome and glib, Cal has coasted through life without ever stopping to examine the choices he's made and the experiences that led him to make them, but the people he meets on the road force him to take a hard look at himself, even as he infects t...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
103 mins