By Brooke Edge
A few nights ago, at dinner with a group of girlfriends, one of them started raving about the preview she’d seen for the new Sam Mendes movie, Away We Go. She proceeded to act out various scenes from the preview as she explained the premise: Couple decides at approximately seven months pregnant to do a cross-country search for the ideal place to live. I found the trailer up on YouTube the next day, and gave it a look. And then another look. And another. Soon it was a five-view-a-day habit. It might necessitate an intervention …
I think this addiction took hold because this trailer pushes all of my 29-year-old yupster buttons: Jim from The Office? Check. Hilarious SNL alum going serious? Check. Playing into my dreams of moving to a new place with a guy I love? Check. Manipulating my burgeoning biological clock-ticking anxieties? Check. Script by Dave Eggers, practically president of the Stuff White People Like book club? Check. Allison Janney and Maggie Gyllenhall? Double check.
I’m trying to hold off the nagging cynic inside me, who’s rolling her eyes and saying I’m playing right into the hands of Hollywood tacticians who sat around a table twirling their moustaches, scheming a way to combine the road trip and quirky supporting characters of Little Miss Sunshine with the pregnant belly of Juno to birth the ultimate indie hybrid.
I’m setting myself up for a hard fall if this movie turns out to be crap. Until it opens on June 5, though, I can enjoy my new favorite trailer. Over, and over, and over, and over …
Here is the trailer on YouTube.
This article appears in May 5-12, 2009.
Ooooh. This sounds right up my alley.