While Charlie Sheen continues his "winning" streak in the headlines, brother Emilio Estevez offers a quiet and earnest look at fathers and sons in The Way. Writer/director Estevez cast his father, Martin Sheen, as Tom, an American on a reluctant pilgrimage to understand his own son who died on the first day of attempting to walk The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James. Estevez makes brief appearances as Tom's son.
Estevez has his heart in the right place with The Way. The film is far from a vanity project for the writer/director's iconic father. However, Estevez's script is clogged with exposition and too many traveling companions loosely based on characters from the Wizard of Oz, transforming a lonely act of determination into a trite buddy movie. Yorick van Wageningen, James Nesbitt, and Deborah Kara Unger co-star.
The Way opened in theaters on October 7 in limited release. Read Beck Ireland's review.
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It is all those negative things…..yet I still loved it…….because it was sincere….