Around the Bend (2004)

All Critics (100) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (67) | DVD (13)

This is the male equivalent of the chick flick. It could have been titled Divine Secrets of the Da-Da Brotherhood.

October 29, 2004 Full Review

Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

Top Critic

Calling this 'tired' gives fatigue a bad name.

October 29, 2004 Full Review

Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

In the end Around the Bend isn't an awful movie. It's merely forgettable.

October 29, 2004 Full Review

Connie Ogle

Miami Herald

Top Critic

A sentimental journey, to be sure, but is saved by bleakly humorous moments.

October 22, 2004 Full Review

Susan Walker

Toronto Star

Top Critic

In Michael Caine and Christopher Walken and Josh Lucas, [Roberts has] surrounded himself with a first-rate cast who, with one exception, seize the day.

October 22, 2004 Full Review

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Walken manages to deliver something pure and heartfelt here. Unfortunately, he's doing so in a film weighed down by coincidences and quirks.

October 22, 2004

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Michael Caine and Christopher Walken breath spirited life into debut writer/director Jordan Roberts' road trip of family bonding in this independent movie with a big heart.

April 18, 2009 Full Review

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

...in many ways the softer scenes have more punch to them than any of the emotional confrontations or dramatic revelations

July 25, 2005 Full Review

Uri Lessing

www.kcactive.com

An unusual, oddly satisfying film that's part road movie and part emotional drama.

April 23, 2005 Full Review

Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

Oozes sentimentality for the plight of these mildly eccentric characters... The problem isn't the film's gooey center but the flavorless, formulaic substance surrounding it.

April 14, 2005 Full Review

Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

There's not much happening even when the viewer eventually gets around the bend.

March 31, 2005 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The film is not quite the deep drama or outrageous comedy it tries to be, but an engaging little story nonetheless.

February 24, 2005 Full Review

David Cornelius

eFilmCritic.com

... a student film that benefits from the participation of solid professionals.

January 7, 2005 Full Review

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

O diretor e roteirista estreante exibe um autêntico desespero em emocionar o público com os personagens e tom tipicamente "indies", mas o resultado é simplório e entediante.

November 25, 2004

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

The film is a modest vehicle for large talents and should have earned its funding as a matter of product placement.

November 24, 2004 Full Review

Jules Brenner

Cinema Signals

...the kind of movie that gives sincerity a bad name.

November 8, 2004 Full Review

Sean Burns

Philadelphia Weekly

At times it almost feels as if the movie is making fun of itself, acknowledging just how familiar and overdone most of this material is.

November 5, 2004 Full Review

Jeff Vice

Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Roberts lets his actors run loose, leading to such embarrassments as Caine's unidentifiable accent or Glenne Headly's turn as Henry's Danish * nurse.

November 5, 2004 Full Review

Sean Means

Salt Lake Tribune

• 1. Turner Lair: Goin' to the rock.. It's where you come from. The woman I made love with on that rock... was your mother.
  – Submitted by Alannah D (16 months ago)
• 1. Jason Lair: Why did Henry send us here, Turner?
  2. Turner Lair: Spite...
  3. Jason Lair: No, he sent us here so I could forgive you. That's all my post-it said was, "Forgive him." What am I forgiving you for, Turner? Huh? What am I forgiving you for?
  4. Turner Lair: What happened here... there's no forgiveness. ...I'm, i'm not even that person anymore.
  5. Jason Lair: What happened on the stairway, Turner? Just tell me, what happened on the stairway?
  6. Turner Lair: You were not in the car.
  7. Jason Lair: What?
  8. Turner Lair: With your mother. You were never in a car accident.
  9. Jason Lair: What'd you do? Did you drop me? Is that it? You get fucked up? You get fucked up and you dropped me?
  10. Turner Lair: Fucked up? I WAS GONE!
  11. Jason Lair: Just... say it! Say it! Say it! You dropped me! Say it.
  12. Turner Lair: No... no. No! NO! Nobody dropped you! ..GET IT? ....I threw you, kid. I threw my boy.. I threw my boy.
  – Submitted by Alannah D (16 months ago)
• 1. Jason Lair: You called me TENSE!
  2. Turner Lair: You called me a THIEF!
  3. Jason Lair: You WERE a thief!
  4. Turner Lair: You were tense. You still are.
  – Submitted by Alannah D (16 months ago)
• 1. Turner Lair: She was.. My breath. When she died, I had no.. Breath, anymore. You understand?
  – Submitted by Alannah D (16 months ago)

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