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Genres:
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Drama
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Director:
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Jordan Roberts
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Actors:
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Laurie O'Brien,
David Marciano,
Lily Knight,
Robert Douglas Washington,
Carlos A. Cabarcas,
Jean Effron,
Rick Negron,
Michael Caine,
Jonah Bobo,
Josh Lucas,
Glenne Headly,
Christopher Walken,
David Eigenberg,
Gerry Bamman,
Norbert Weisser
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Duration:
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84 min.
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Rating:
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(6.4/10)69
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Plot Summary:
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When the patriarch of four generations of boys passes away, the three remaining family members fly at b put out out on a thruway trip to dig up an old family encrypted that holds information to their past.
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Around the Bend
Around the Bend is the kind of pan-generational, single-sex, multi-hankie family picture that would have starred Shirley MacLaine and Julia Roberts had it been made 20 years ago. Instead, it features Michael Caine as a dying, but still chipper, patriarch; Christopher Walken as a prodigal son who shows up just in time for redemption; Josh Lucas as the tense, resentful son he left behind; and Jonah Bobo as the saucer-eyed 6-year-old who takes it all in. It's got a desert road trip, a beat-up VW bus, a '60s soul soundtrack and Walken dancing around a campfire, unbidden. It's about fathers and sons and unbreakable bonds and sad, shameful pasts. Gentlemen, it's a male chick flick - The Dirty Secrets of the Ya-Ya Brotherhood.
Inspired by writer-director Jordan Roberts' rel...
Around the Bend
Michael Caine and Christopher Walken star in this low-budget tale of painful paternity inspired by the life of writer-director Jordan Roberts
When Christopher Walken and Michael Caine sign up for a small independent movie, you assume there must be something special about the script. Around The Bend doesn't exactly satisfy this supposition.
The subject matter has potential: as his grandfather Henry (Caine) lies dying, Jason (Lucas) is startled to find his estranged father Turner (Walken) at the door. Abandoned by Turner after his mother died, Jason is forced to confront his grudge when Henry's will dictates the two undertake a road trip, with Jason's young son Zach (Bobo) and Henry's ashes in tow.
The pace is slow, and the dialogue insufficie...
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