Paging all “Garden State” fans: we’ve got the next movie that will change your life. Hipster Runoff posted a trailer and hilarious take down for “Away We Go” the Dave Eggers and his wife Velenda Vita penned, Sam Mendes directed indie-to-the-core movie, starring Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski. We’re at once fascinated and repulsed by this movie. It’s obviously pedigreed for indie out the wazoo, but it’s also marketed at the 30something indie identifying audience with an aesthetic that hits harder than an Apple or Starbucks commercial. Which is so painfully not cool.
In an interview on the movie’s website, Eggers and Vita explain they wrote the film when Vita was pregnant and, in typical Eggers fashion, he takes a fast left turn and goes into an exposition about their relationship with the Bush administration at the time the script was written. Eggers says, “It was such a dark time in American history and we were sort of overwhelmed by political paranoia on a national and local level, and at the same time there was a lot of paranoia in parenting with people’s fears about their kids. They seemed to be over thinking everything. So our initial impetus was to think about a central question, which was, “Is there any rational way to bring a child into the world right now? And can you live as a rational balanced person and is it necessary to go off one end or the other, either total neglect or total over thinking and hovering over your kids?”’
Amazing supporting cast though, including Catherine O’Hara, Jeff Daniels, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Josh Hamilton (yes from “Kicking & Screaming”!), Allison Janney (The West Wing), and comedian Jim Gaffigan. You can get your indie fix when the movie is released in select cities on June 5.