Written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. Very pregnant Maya Rudolph and not-husband John Krasinsky journey around America to find roots and meet an assortment of terrible or damaged people, the worst of which are Maggie Gyllenhaal and Josh Hamilton. In fact the only nice one is her sister, Carmen Ojogo. Allison Janney makes an impression as a deluded and unpleasant woman who doesn't care anything about her kids, husband Jim Gaffigan. John's parents also are unbelievable - Jeff Daniels and Catherine O'Hara.
Even a random kid they encounter talks of having tried to kill his baby sister.
She won't get married - ever. He keeps trying to shock her to get the baby's heart rate up. They're a lovely couple. A key moment is with his brother, whose wife has left and he's terrified that his daughter will never recover. They find a lovely house at the end and when Alexei Murdoch's chorus "If I should stumble" kicks in I could have burst into tears.
Photographed by Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine, Be Kind Rewind, Blow) and edited by Sarah Flack (The Limey, Lost in Translation and other Sophia Coppola films, Dan in Real Life).
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