Sometimes you have to take the long road home.
An extremely handsome man in his early 30s, Cal (Billy Crudup) has all of the outward trappings of success: a good career, a beautiful wife, a young son who adores him. But on the morning of his son's third birthday, something snaps inside Cal and he packs his bag and hits the road.
On the road, Cal has a series of encounters with people who each bring to light aspects of his true nature - things he'd rather not see - provoking a chain of painful self-realisations. This voyager of self-discovery ultimately leads Cal to the one person from his past that just might help him find his way back home, even if he takes the long road to get there.
Special Agent Matti
Uhhh... World traveller is more than just a little bit like Hideous kinky but without the saving graces of steamy love interests, exotic locales and child endangerment. It's a middle class man having a middle class crisis and handling it badly, which seems to be all the excuse he needs to treat everyone else badly, but it all comes down to the fact that his father left home and didn't come back. That's it. You know, like, being from a broken home means that you abandon your wife and 3-year-old son, travel across the country giving rides to strangers and treating them badly. Uh-huh. I really can't believe that someone could ruin their life so greatly over something so trivial. But that's just me.
Did I mention that half the film is taken up with shots of Cal driving his Volvo across the North American continent (and then back again)? Keep the remote handy so you can fast forward through those bits.
MA 15+ (Medium level coarse language)
103 minutes (1:43 hours)
DVD rental: 26 March 2003
VHS rental: 26 March 2003
