The Road Within
2014 · Movie · R · 100 min · ★ 6.8 · 38% critics
After losing his mother, a young man living with Tourette’s sets out to bring her ashes to a place that mattered to her. Along the way, he’s joined by two fellow patients from a treatment facility, and their impulsive road trip becomes a messy, funny, and heartfelt push toward friendship, independence, and healing.
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Details
- Years
- 2014
- Release date
- 2014-10-24
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 38/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (403 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a warm, offbeat dramedy about unlikely friends finding connection on the road, in the vein of The Fundamentals of Caring or A Long Way Down; Not for you if swearing, sexual content, or distressing mental-health themes are dealbreakers.
Pros: heartfelt road-trip bonding; mix of funny and sad; empathetic look at illness | Cons: predictable beats; some portrayals feel clichéd; crude content may distract
Themes
- parent child relationship
- road trip
- tourette syndrome
- woman director
- cremation
Cast & crew
Robert Sheehan
as Vincent
Dev Patel
as Alex
Zoë Kravitz
as Marie
Robert Patrick
as Robert
Kyra Sedgwick
as Dr. Mia Rose
Ali Hillis
as Monica
Jim Calvert
as Priest
- LK
Louisa Kendrick
as Nurse
Ross Gallo
as Therapist
Cooper Roth
as Boy 1
Directed by Gren Wells