The site's critics consensus reads: " Around the Bend sets a destination of earnest generational drama, but settles for the most derivative route to get there, veering off course into trite sentimentality." On Metacritic, Around the Bend holds 46 out of a 100 rank based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Reception Critical reception Īround the Bend received negative reviews from critics, as the film holds a 29% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 98 reviews, with an average rating of 4.9/10. Robert Douglas Washington as College Student.Some time later, the last two generations of the tribe, Jason and Zach, ceremoniously spread his ashes from the rock. On the way to the rock where Turner "knew" his wife, Jason's mother, he dies. Turner admits he threw him when he was high, causing the limp. Jason heads to the address given, finding him there. Zach’s mom picks him up, and Jason finds out that Turner is experiencing kidney failure and living on borrowed time. He realises the real objective is to bring him to confess what he did to hi. When Turner discovers the last stop is Alberquerque, he tries to ditch Jason and Zach with the dog he traded for the other urn. Dying, he has escaped by walking out of the hospital. Katrina, who’s preparing to leave, is told Turner is a fugitive. At the same time, the FBI has arrived at Henry’s. They continue on their way to New Mexico, stopping where Henry and wife had been together, married… At a small motel, another urn of ashes is given to them. They pilot a very old VW van down the desert highways from one chicken outlet to the next, faithfully consuming fried chicken at every meal. The first stop is local, at Henry’s wife’s grave, where Turner reads some words while playing music, and he leaves her a sandwich. Throughout the trek, the familial bonds are re-established in Henry’s ‘tribe’ and a gradual understanding of the characters is revealed. The three survivors start out on a journey of discovery and ash-spreading. Turner finds himself agreeing to fulfill his father's wishes, and Jason also grudgingly complies. Every bag must be opened in a specific KFC restaurant, and the ashes scattered nearby. After being cremated along with his dog, he wants the three to make a journey from Los Angeles to New Mexico, scattering their ashes along the way. The opening of the KFC bag reveals Henry's plan. Then he dies.ĭetermined to bring the family together, Henry plans a 'burial' trip that all family members, his son, his grandson and his great-grandson, must partake in as terms of his will. The old man and the boy settle into a booth at the local KFC restaurant, where Henry scribbles instructions on Post-Its and stuffs them into KFC bags, one inside another, outlining a sort of scavenger hunt. While Jason is out at a bar, commiserating with a friend, Henry rouses himself for one last journey into the world with Zach. Henry insists on a road trip, but everyone declines, so he settles it by dying just after planning it with Zach’s help. Sickly Henry's joy with the return of his son Turner before he dies and the four generations of family together again is short lived when his son announces he's only staying the night. ![]() You can see the indifference immediately as all three men call each other by their first names. Turner disappeared into addiction and Jason was left with a bum leg, so Jason is bitter with his arrival and obviously not pleased. ![]() Jason's thieving musician father Turner darkens their doorstep after having abandoned him 30 years ago, when he was two years old and had lost his mother who had died in a car accident. Jason Lair lives with his ailing grandfather Henry, son Zach, and a live-in nurse, Katrina, from Denmark.
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