“Away We Go” is about lovers and for lovers. But it's also for anyone who doubts the truth that home is where the heart is. In Sam Mendes' engaging indie film, bespectacled Burt (John Krasinski) and very pregnant Verona (Maya Rudolph) embark upon an earnest (and at times certifiably wacko) road trip in search of the right place to settle and begin their life as a family. As they journey – by old Volvo, by train or by plane – from the cactuses of the Southwest to the leaf-strewn streets of Madison, Wis., to the Spanish moss of the Deep South, they discover that love and family aren't always what they seem to be. And they wonder, together: Where is home? While some of the characters they meet along the way – Allison Janney's bawdy Lily, Jim Gaffigan's creepy Lowell, Maggie Gyllenhaal's neo-hippie LN – are overdrawn and...
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