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CHICAGO – The late playwright August Wilson left a gift to the world in the form of his “American Century Cycle,” a series of plays each individually set in a decade of the 20th Century, focusing on the black experience. Chicago’s Goodman Theatre presents Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” now through May 19th, 2024 (click here).
JIM reviews film "AWAY WE GO" -- There’s a Function in dealing with the DYS-function-al!
Submitted by jimchudnow@sbcg... on June 5, 2009 - 1:24am
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“AWAY WE GO” — There’s a Function in dealing with the DYS-function-al!
Rating: 8 of 10 stars (based on an advance screening)
Life has become increasingly difficult for dorky insurance-seller Burt (JOHN KRASINSKI) when his live-in girlfriend Verona (MAYA RUDOLPH) becomes pregnant & they can’t afford a decent apartment. They start to seek out comforting surroundings where they could temporarily live to raise a kid— but PROBLEMS keep arising when they go away to visit relatives & friends around the U.S. & Canada who they think might be supportive and a good influence. People & places are not as they ‘remember’ them or the way they hoped they’d be. What they expect often turns inside out as they start to see the quirky, kooky & periodically confused & difficult lives of folks they thought they could rely on (including people played by a supporting cast including JEFF DANIELS, CATHERINE O’HARA, MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL, ALLISON JANNEY, JIM GAFFIGAN, PAUL SCHNEIDER & others). This is one of those rare CLEVER, WELL-WRITTEN films— so ‘true’ & good (especially in reminding me of certain types of people I myself have known), it makes the story and very well-acted characters BELIEVABLE in their humorous dysfunctionality & attempts to get on with their lives.
