Down the Road Again
Down the Road Again

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The sequel to the Canadian classic Goin' Down the Road (1970) picks up forty years later when Pete is on the cusp of retirement from his job as postie. Pete has been living in Vancouver, disconnected from his old life and friendships. On the verge of his retirement, Pete receives a call from an acquaintance of his somewhat estranged best friend, Joey. Pete learns that Joey is facing surgery for cancer. Days later, Pete is paid a visit from Joey's pal and Pete is given a packa... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Down the Road Again:

Doug McGrath
Kathleen Robertson
Anthony Lemke
Jayne Eastwood
Cayle Chernin
Tedde Moore

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The sequel to the Canadian classic Goin' Down the Road (1970) picks up forty years later when Pete is on the cusp of retirement from his job as postie. Pete has been living in Vancouver, disconnected from his old life and friendships. On the verge of his retirement, Pete receives a call from an acquaintance of his somewhat estranged best friend, Joey. Pete learns that Joey is facing surgery for cancer. Days later, Pete is paid a visit from Joey's pal and Pete is given a package as he learns of Joey's demise. Joey has sent Pete the urn containing his ashes, 3 letters, money and the plea that Pete fulfill his final wishes. Instead of peaceful retirement, gardening and dreaming of a more creative life, Pete instead finds himself on the road again in the old Chevy. This road trip is a true adventure and each letter, a clue as to what will happen next. From the grave, Joey dictates Pete's next steps and ultimately changes the course of his life. First stop is Toronto where Pete is to find Joey's estranged wife, Betty and deliver some money that Joey has left for her. He also has to inform her of Joey's death. Having been abandoned by Joey while expecting their child, Betty is not at all receptive to Pete when she discovers him at her doorstep. Betty's best friend Selina invites Pete in where he breaks the news and meets Betty-Jo - Joey and Betty's daughter. Now a forty year old woman, Betty-Jo has had a string of unsuccessful relationships and unsteady jobs. Betty-Jo has the fire and adventurous nature of her estranged father but is also filled with anger and resentment towards the man who deserted her. With his first task completed, Pete climbs back into his Chevy to continue on the road towards Cape Breton where he is to scatter his old friend's ashes. Betty-Jo asks to hitch a ride to Oshawa but once aboard the car announces her true intentions - to travel with Pete all the way to Cape Breton. In a move to try to get to know her father better, Betty-Jo convinces Pete to allow her to come on his journey and together they unravel more secrets to the past than either of them expected.

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Jam! Movies - 6/10 by Liz BraunShebib, who would probably be the first to admit that Goin' Down the Road is a hard act to follow, tells the story in Down the Road Again with energy and humour and he gets terrific performances from his cast.
User Review - 10/10 by Gregory MA must see for anyone who's seen the original. As a stand alone film a good story, nice journey. A good coming to age flick. I really enjoyed it.
User Review - 8/10 by Daniel PI liked this movie. I enjoyed seeing some of the original cast members continue the story of the original film. A simple, if somewhat Dickensian story line, with a made in Canada feel. I think some part of me hoped for the look and feel of the original, i.e. low budget, grainy, gritty story. But probably not realistic to assume the director would try to capture the feel of the original, technology has changed too much. We need to tell ourselves our stories. This is a good one and worth seeing with the original.
User Review - 8/10 by J MI enjoyed this movie. I watched it becauseI have family in Cape Breton and hoped to see some familiar and beautiful scenery. But it was much more. A story of how people deal with disappointment and surprises from their past and move ahead. Simple but genuine, authentic, well-acted. I would recommend it.
User Review - 6/10 by Lesley WThoroughly enjoyed this film today, even though I remembered very little about 1970's "Going Down the Road." The characters were interesting, and the story moved along at a steady pace, not getting bogged down in travelling long stretches of highway. Jayne Eastwood is a Canadian treasure. Kathleen Robertson did a great job as Joey's daughter. Go and see this Canadian gem!
User Review - 6/10 by Chris MA pleasant, gently told sequel to 1970's Goin' Down the Road (though perhaps told 10 years too late given the age of the main characters Pete, Betty and Selina, along with daughter Betty Jo). Shebib's angle of redemption might seem like the easy way out, as stories tidy themselves a little too neatly in the end. Still, though, the very Canadian, frank, unassuming way the characters reveal themselves makes the story more palatable (rather than reverting to melodramatics).
User Review - 6/10 by Anthony JSequels made this long after the original really never work out. This film has a few things going for it, chiefly the performance of the great Doug McGrath, but it feels like an afterthought ... an attempt to tie up ends that nobody felt were loose in the first place. Like so many Canadian films these days, it looks and feels like a TV movie. Not embarrassing, but unnecessary.
User Review - 6/10 by Shawn WPretty good follow up decades later to Canadian classic "Goin Down the Road". A story of second chances from poor decisions made years earlier as Joey is asked by Pete in a letter after he passes to deliver his ashes to Cape Breton from Vancouver. The director and as much of the cast as possible is reassembled. Could never match the original but a sequel that ends up for the most part satisfying.
User Review - 4/10 by Janna MNot a bad follow-up to the 1970 classic..flashbacks to scenes from the original are very poignant.
User Review - 4/10 by Norman DSeldom have I so wanted a sequel to succeed.I had been deeply moved by the gritty original, Going Down the Road, which I saw at a time when the Canadian Maritimes provinces were bleeding good young folks for whom no jobs were left. Different as my life was from Pete and Joey's, I well understood what it's like to have to leave the Atlantic for what the late Stan Rogers once singingly dubbed, "the scummy lakes and the City of Toronto". The initial excitement and the inevitable disillusionment when down the road still doesn't make for the good life was brilliantly captured. So this one, focusing in on the reverse journey for Pete and the now deceased Joey's wilding daughter sounded like a good gig. And it was until they reached Cape Breton and the schmaltz starting dripping all over the plot. In the process, for reasons I cannot imagine, film-maker Shebib conveniently invented a backstory for when and why Pete and Joey had left, that is utterly inconsistent with the so-much better original. Who can forget Pete's boyish grin as he sat high in the old convertible driving towards Toronto? Yet, now, Pete's departure is linked to a wrong side of the tracks love affair which had driven the lad down the road broken-hearted. This indigestible change sets up for the schmaltz that the film descends into with coincidences and reunions that even Dickens at his worst would blush at. I did squeeze out a secodn star because you can't not love seeing Doug McGrath again, playing well, in spite of the bad plotting, the what you see is what you get Pete, 40 years on. I wish more movies would make this sequels with decades of separation. I'd like to see ET come back into the life of grown up Elliot (Henry Thomas) and lots of other such... it's just they gotta do it better than Shebib did in this disappointing movie.

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