
On the day of his son's third birthday, without discussion with his wife or even leaving a note, Manhattan architect Cal gets in the family Volvo and starts driving. Marriage is suffocating him. His traveling seems aimless: stopping to work construction, drinking heavily, picking up women, thinking about his wife and son but not calling them. He sometimes goes across the borderline into fantasy as he imagines resolutions to his travels. It turns out that his travel West is no... (Full plot summary below)
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On the day of his son's third birthday, without discussion with his wife or even leaving a note, Manhattan architect Cal gets in the family Volvo and starts driving. Marriage is suffocating him. His traveling seems aimless: stopping to work construction, drinking heavily, picking up women, thinking about his wife and son but not calling them. He sometimes goes across the borderline into fantasy as he imagines resolutions to his travels. It turns out that his travel West is not altogether aimless: he has a destination and some questions to ask. Once they're answered, will he remain the mythic restless American male or re-cross the borderline to return home?
Leave your thoughts about World Traveler.
| Countingdown.comLarry CarrollSomewhere inside the mess that is World Traveler, there is a mediocre movie trying to get out. |
| Matinee MagazineJeremiah KippBut buying into sham truths and routine "indie" filmmaking, Freundlich has made just another safe movie. It's not horrible, just horribly mediocre. |
| Philadelphia WeeklySean BurnsShot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors... |
| Zap2it.comVanessa SibbaldThe subtlety of how the story is told is beautifully done |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanWhatever complaints I might have, I'd take [its] earnest errors and hard-won rewards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like Antwone Fisher or The Emperor's Club any time. |
| Entertainment TodayBrent SimonA wonderful, quietly offbeat little drama... [with] a deep inward reflectiveness and... unyielding, non-judgmental nakedness. |
| Detroit Free PressTerry LawsonI was more personally affected by World Traveler than by any other film I have seen in recent months. |
| OregonianKim MorganFreundlich's postmodern road movie contains several sharply observed scenes but doesn't really add up to much. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrCrudup's screen presence is the one thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy, existential exploration of why men leave their families. |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisI, for one, hope Freundlich gets another shot at a feature. And if he gets it, I hope he proves he knows what to do with it. |