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Around the bend - Michael Caine, Christopher Walken, Josh Lucas, Jordan Roberts

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The skeletons in the family closet just came out to play.

Around the bend is inspired by the relationship between writer-director Jordan Roberts and the absentee father he barely knew. It tells the story of four generations of men who are suddenly brought together by the chance to uncover the truth about their family's past. The journey will take them out on the road to a world full of surprises-some comic, some dramatic, and all of them personal.

Jason Lair (Josh Lucas) is a simple man with a simple wish: a normal life. This isn't an easy goal for the mild-mannered bank employee: Jason is newly separated from his wife, who has left him to care for their six-year-old son Zach (Jonah Bobo) while she paints in Nepal, and his ailing grandfather Henry (Oscar winner Michael Caine), a former archaeologist close to death, who is investigating alternative rituals for his impending funeral ("I'm not going in the ground!" he protests.) So when Jason's estranged father and Henry's son, Turner (Oscar winner Christopher Walken), whose chequered past includes exploits from the musical to the criminal, pays the family an unexpected visit, nothing is "simple" or "normal" in Jason's life any more.

In the coming days, the somewhat reluctant Lair men will embark on a trip not only through the mythic beauty of the Desert Southwest, but across the family's own rocky emotional landscape. Forced together by a deep loss, these very different people find a great deal along the way-devastating secrets, amazing discoveries and, just as Henry wanted... each other.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film drama family men son grandfather father

Persons of interest

Michael Caine .... Henry Lair
Jonah Bobo .... Zach Lair
Josh Lucas .... Jason Lair
Glenne Headly .... Katrina
Christopher Walken .... Turner Lair
David Eigenberg .... John
Gerry Bamman .... Albert
Jean Effron .... Albert's Mother
David Marciano .... Detective
Norbert Weisser .... Walter
Laurie O'Brien .... Ruth
Kathryn Hahn .... Sarah
Jordan Roberts .... Screenwriter
Jordan Roberts .... Director

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Awards and film festivals:

International Press Academy Golden Satellite Awards 2004: Won: Actor In A Supporting Role - Drama (Christopher Walken)
Montréal World Film Festival 2004: Won: Best Actor (Christopher Walken), Special Grand Prize of the Jury (Jordan Roberts); Nominated: Grand Prix des Amériques (Jordan Roberts)
San Diego Film Festival 2004: Won: Festival Award: Best Feature Film (Jordan Roberts)