Around the Bend From:Michael Caine , Jonah Bobo , Josh Lucas , Glenne Headly , Christopher Walken , Jordan Roberts (VI) , Warner Home Video ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790792477
Format: AC-3
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: Dubbed
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 0790792478
Label: Warner Home Video
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 58 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 710 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 18 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 542 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-02-22
Running Time: 83 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Product Description:
Around the Bend concerns four generations of Lair men. There's eccentric patriarch Henry (Michael Caine), prodigal son Turner (Christopher Walken), bitter grandson Jason (Josh Lucas), and great-grandson Zach (Jonah Bobo). Shortly after Turner arrives in L.A. for a surprise visit, the ailing Henry dies. The remaining three take off on the road trip he had insisted on before his untimely passing. Jason is none too pleased--after all, his father ran out on him 30 years ago--but it was his Henry's dying wish. So there they are on the way to New Mexico, where long-buried secrets will finally be revealed. Heartwarming, if predictable, Around the Bend represents the softer side of its three leads and Walken is particularly effective in an uncharacteristic role (i.e., miles away from The Deer Hunter). His Turner is a bit odd, to be sure, but mostly he's just a regular guy who's made a few--rather substantial--mistakes. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews:
From Death Valey to Albuquerque and some desolate rock in New Mexico, 2008-01-31
Four generations of fathers and sons without any wife, mother or daughter (vaguely one in the far distance at the end of the film). When the oldest one of these four musketeers, the great grandfather, decides to die he prepares, under the vigilant eye of his great grand son, the rite, ritual and mourning ceremony he wants for after his death. And there is a big chunk of money behind it if it is respected, though it is far from being known from the very start. The real objective is to bring his son, the grand father, to confessing what he did to his son, the father, which he will eventually do just before dying in his turn on the way to the rock where he "knew" his wife, his son's mother, where a new ritual will take place but only with the last two generations of the tribe, the father and the son. The point here is that the film is never emotional. It is funny most of the time and each desire appears as a whim, a caprice, and they probably are, at least up to the moment when some deep motivation comes to the surface, like the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. Some of the scenery is beautiful in California, Arizona and New Mexico. It is true I would have liked a slightly more emotional treatment, even more physical, because there is such a level of reserve and shyness that some elements are nothing but a vague whisper behind a loud music and we hardly get it. The film is also funny for the systematic re-visitation of the music of the 60s, of the hippy times.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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