Away We Go(2009)- User Reviews

The movie contained some scenes that were poignant, sincere, funny, and thought provoking. like the interaction with the couple in Montral who adopted a houseful of children but could not conceive their own...and the brother in Miami who was trying to cope with his wife leaving him and the effect it would have on the young daughter
This film also contained actions ,characterizations and dialogue that were totally unbelievable and cringe inducing.
.Allison Janney verbally abusing her children at the dog race track and calling her daughter a dyke while Maya sits and laughs..(ouch!!)
Maggie Gyllenhaul throwing a tantrum because she is gifted with a stroller..the whole set up for the presentation is uncomfortable to watch..
A stranger on campus, when asked for directions to her office, makes the comment that she is STROLLER LESS!! so what does Bart do??? goes and buys her a stroller (remarking that the item is SO expensive..when the model he is shown pushing is a cheap umbrella model that Maggie, a college professor could pick up at a garage sale for $5)
I like Sam Mendes and expected a little something above the ordinary. Maya Rudolph and John Kascinski were likable but were we supposed to actually identify and somehow sympathize with them while they wondered all over North America trying to determine where they belonged???? with him scaring and swearing at her in an effort to get the babys heart rate up??? .. like that even made sense..
How fortuitous that she just happened to have a million dollar ocean front property left to her by her dead parents.. We should all be so lucky..!!!
so with this in mind.. why did they have to fly all over the country to check out Phoenix, Montreal and Madison when they had this gorgeous house sitting empty?
Her grief and inability to talk about her parents was thrown in there??? .. why WAS it thrown in there?? Verona and her sister crawl into a bath tub at a public showroom holding each other as they reminisce about their dead parents.
A young boy confesses that he held a pillow over a sleeping baby to make it stop breathing as the couple sits in a hotel lobby..
3 airline employees determine that Verona is not telling the truth about being just 6 months pregnant, and do not allow her to board the plane....
This kind of stuff never happens in real life... so why put it in a movie???? it doesn' ring true..
I almost stopped the movie after the first scene which depicted the couple having oral sex and him remarking that she tasted somehow different??? I was watching this movie with my daughter and some friends..It was uncomfortable beginning to a movie that had a lot of uncomfortable moments.. I blame this in the story, not the actors who somehow despite this substandard material, managed to make the rest of the film watchable..