Forty years ago Easy Rider drove his bike cross country to find America. Now that generation's children are crossing America attempting to find the best place to raise their expectant child. A young couple (Burt and Verona)live in a shack so they could be near his parents. (Her parents are dead.) They are expecting a child and find out that the parents are leaving. Since their jobs do not tie them to any location, they opt to go across America to visit family and friends in an attempt to find a suitable place to raise their girl.

The people are off beat and are certainly not people you want to raise kids around. They have to reject family and friend offers. Sometimes the parting is nice, sometimes not. The movie has sexual situations and bad language, but not just for the sake of having it. Burt has the propensity of using words incorrectly, i.e. he calls someone who carves wood a "cobbler." When they visit his parents we find out his dad has the same problem with word usage. The movie is clever, witty, funny, and has a heartwarming happy ending, even though they dragged it out. Burt and Verona are not married. He wants to get married, she does not. They are very much in love, perhaps soul mates is the phrase.

Definitely one of the better Indie chick flick I have seen. Four star movie for a guy, five stars for a woman. Good date movie.

Went into the movie, without knowing anything about it (except the fact that Mendes was the director and the title that is) and was more than pleased with what I saw. If you look up the phrase "road trip" in the (film) dictionary, they might have put this movie as an example of that ("genre") in there.

I personally hadn't seen the two leads here before (or didn't notice them),but they are doing a really good job here (funnily enough I watched Mr. Krasinski in another movie called "It's complicated"). As the saying goes "journey is the reward" ... and it is quite a journey the movie takes you with.

You could argue, that nothing big is happening or that this is not a movie you would watch at the cinema. I personally liked it and it's a nice change of pace. Plus the acting is terrific. Watch it if you like good dramas.

Burt Farlander (John Krasinski) and Verona De Tessant (Maya Rudolph) are expecting their first child. They thought they would be living in the same state as Burt's parents Jerry (Jeff Daniels) and Gloria (Catherine O'Hara). However they tell them that they are moving away. They feel untethered and decide to travel around visiting family and friends to see if they should move to be closer to some other people.

The most important thing in a movie like this is overwhelming chemistry between the leads. They are perfectly nice actors doing perfectly nice characters. I never got a great sense of heat from them. Krasinski is doing a lot of joking around. Maya Rudolph returns the sarcastic joking. They just need a few more nice moments of coupledom to set off the chemistry. Verona's pregnancy may have stunted some of the development.

The various people deliver their own jarring performances. It's quirky for one stop, then sentimental in another, and then quite sad. I never felt a sense of realism as it all feels fake. It feels like the writer is jerking us around with every stop. Then the last visit really stops the movie cold.