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CONSENSUS
Heavy symbolism and a repulsive lead character make World Traveler seems like a long trip.
CAST & CREW
Billy Crudup, Julianne Moore, Karen Allen
Directed by Bart Freundlich
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SYNOPSIS
Cal (Billy Crudup), is a man in his mid thirties, living in New York City, with a loving wife and a baby. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language and some sexuality
RUNTIME
1 hour, 43 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Apr 19, 2002
Video: Jan 21, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
ThinkFilm
GENRE
Dramas, Family Life, Road Trips, Family Crises, Road Movies
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TRAILER & MEDIA
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 "eventually arrives at its heart, as simple self-reflection meditation."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
 "Though writer/director Bart Freundlich's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship, it has some special qualities and the soulful gravity of Crudup's anchoring performance."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"This episodic, quietly affecting movie is both gritty and poetic."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"A first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home, but your ego and all your problems go with you."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"Somewhere inside the mess that is World Traveler, there is a mediocre movie trying to get out."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"...irritating soul-searching garbage."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dots, just dots."
-- Thom Fowler, HOLLYWOOD BITCHSLAP
"The film's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed Crudup out of pre-9/11 New York and onto a cross-country road trip of the Homeric kind."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Whatever 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."
-- Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM
"It's a road-trip drama with too many wrong turns."
-- Laura Kelly, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"A journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it's potentially just as rewarding."
-- Bruce Kirkland, JAM! MOVIES
"It's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn, but it definitely gives you something to chew on."
-- Kim Linekin, EYE WEEKLY
"Cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
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"Shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors..."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"A poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"World Traveler might not go anywhere new, or arrive anyplace special, but it's certainly an honest attempt to get at something."
-- Kevin Courrier, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"At its worst the screenplay is callow, but at its best it is a young artist’s thoughtful consideration of fatherhood."
-- Maria Garcia, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"The story ... is moldy and obvious."
-- Ernest Hardy, L.A. WEEKLY
"God bless Crudup and his aversion to taking the easy Hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER
"But buying into sham truths and routine "indie" filmmaking, Freundlich has made just another safe movie. It's not horrible, just horribly mediocre."
-- Jeremiah Kipp, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"Even as I valiantly struggled to remain interested, or at least conscious, I could feel my eyelids ... getting ... very ... heavy ..."
-- Joe Leydon, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"Yes, I suppose it's lovely that Cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but World Traveler gave me no reason to care, so I didn't."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"The gifted Crudup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself, and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the movie knew what to do with him."
-- Kim Morgan, OREGONIAN
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ROTTEN 32%
Avg. Rating: 5/10 |
"Freundlich's made [Crudup] a suburban architect, and a cipher."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"It believes it's revealing some great human truths, when, in reality, it's churning ground that has long passed the point of being fertile."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Crudup's screen presence is the one thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy, existential exploration of why men leave their families."
-- Jay Carr, BOSTON GLOBE
"One senses in World Traveler and in his earlier film that Freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers, and circles it obsessively, without making contact."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The most remarkable (and frustrating) thing about World Traveler, which opens today in Manhattan, is that its protagonist, after being an object of intense scrutiny for 104 minutes, remains a complete blank."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Anemic, pretentious."
-- Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
"A dreary movie."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"I was more personally affected by World Traveler than by any other film I have seen in recent months."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"It's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism, dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"Were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about Cal than does the movie or the character any good, Freundlich's World Traveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising American movies of the year."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
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"The movie, while beautiful, feels labored, with a hint of the writing exercise about it."
-- Mary F. Pols, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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