Maya Rudolph

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There is some profanity, an extended joke about an adult getting high on marijuana brownies, and toilet humor. OxyContin, heroin commission m... (Fri Jul 03 23:19:02 2009 PDT)[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%),...

'Away We Go' delivers a refreshing summer film

One of the things that I really enjoy about summertime is the movies. I love big blockbusters that are a little superficial and heavy on special effects and star power. Every summer, there is a new batch of big budget studio...

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Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH Movies Friday Thursday, July 2, 2009 Starting today “ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS” (PC-6, Town & Country) Manny, Diego and Sid are in for quite a time when Sid decides he wants to start a...

Saulnier on Cinema: Roadtrip film, 'Away We Go,' hits too many bumps

By Beth Saulnier • Correspondent • July 2, 2009 "Away We Go" is one of those movies you want to like, but can't quite embrace. The film stars John Krasinski ("The Office") and Maya Rudolph ("Saturday Night Live") as a...

EUR FILM REVIEW: Away We Go

Couple Searches for Place to Raise Child in Unorthodox Road Comedy *Verona (Maya Rudolph) is six months pregnant, but it doesn’t look like she put much thought into whether she was ready to bring a baby into the world. After...

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A set of curly-toed juttis signify a couple’s overweening liberalism in Away We Go, a film by writer couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida and director Sam Mendes. Eggers and Mendes are doyens of dysfunction, but Away is more...

Chris Kattan's first post-'SNL' series: Will you watch?

Chris Kattan has joined the cast of ABC's new fall comedy The Middle -- a solid, if hardly life-changing, family sitcom starring Patricia Heaton. The pilot is actually pretty funny: Heaton makes a great harried mom, the...

Review: Quirky charm just enough to make ‘Away We Go’ likable

It’s definitely a different type of relationship dynamic from Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes whose last film was the underappreciated “Revolutionary Road” of last year. In “Away We Go,” Mendes rediscovers his dark...

Bay's Giant Robot Sequel Blows Up the Box Office!

Going into the weekend, there was no doubt Michael Bay's anticipated sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, would be huge, though few thought it could open as big as last summer's...

Away We Go (R) (2009)

Human relationships, complicated and convoluted as they are, make fine fodder for master directors like Sam Mendes. Add the seasoned cast of Maya Rudolph, John Krasinski, Allison Janney, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Catherine O’Hara,...

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