Elixir Films
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The Way
You don't choose a life. You live one.
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.
- Original title
- The Way
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- $13,900,000
Crazypiglady
Jan 30, 2023 · via TMDB
A thin but poignant plot takes us on a beautiful journey through Northern Spain. Along the way, Tom (Martin Sheen) is joined by three unwanted other travellers as he completes his dead son's journey along the Camino Way. Along the journey, they learn more about each other and share their stories. The film could have gone deeper into these stories but this would have taken the focus away from the main story of Tom's personal mission. James Nesbitt plays an annoying Irish writer, Jack but Tom, originally planning a solo journey, is equally annoyed by his new Dutch and Canadian companions. All are plausible people one might expect to find on such a journey. The soundtrack is amazing but the real stars are the landscapes and locations showcased with brilliant cinematography. A beautiful film which won't prepare you to walk the Camino but it will give you the views and (romanticised) atmosphere of travelling through Northern Spain. (8/10)
tmdb28039023
Aug 25, 2022 · via TMDB
Dr. Thomas Avery (Martin Sheen), an American ophthalmologist, goes to France following the death of his son Daniel, killed in the Pyrenees during a storm on the Camino de Santiago (aka the Way of St. James). We see, by way of flashback, that Thomas and Daniel's relationship was strained – and according to the former had been so "since his mother died." Daniel went to Europe without his father's blessing ("We agreed that if l let you take me to the airport, you wouldn't lecture me about how l'm ruining my life"); additionally, Daniel had earlier broken the news to Thomas that he wasn't going to finish his doctorate ("Margaret Mead didn't become a great cultural anthropologist by staying in school"). Daniel is played by Emilio Estévez, who happens to be Sheen's real-life son; unfortunately, he also was 48 years old – and looked it – when the movie was released, thus making his character more 'midlife crisis' than 'teenage angst.' I can believe 69-year-old (at the time) Sheen playing a 60-year-old man, but Estévez can't help coming off like a pathetic victim of arrested development, even if he's also aiming for nine years younger – which would make him about 40; regardless of whether Margaret Mead did or did not become "a great cultural anthropologist by staying in school," the fact remains that by age 35 she'd already published Coming of Age in Samoa and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, two influential works in her chosen field. Daniel, conversely, not only hasn't even finished a doctorate, but didn't finish, for that matter, the Camino the Santiago either – he barely even started it, in point of fact; he died "only one day into the trek." All things considered, Daniel was kind of a screw-up; in that sense, Estévez should have gotten his brother Charlie to play him instead.
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Martin Sheen
Tom
Emilio Estevez
Daniel
Deborah Kara Unger
Sarah
Yorick van Wageningen
Joost
James Nesbitt
Jack
Tchéky Karyo
Captain Henri
Ángela Molina
Angelica
Carlos Leal
Jean
Simón Andreu
Don Santiago
Eusebio Lázaro
El Ramón
Antonio Gil
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French Mortician
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Penitent #1
Manuel Calvo
Penitent #3
Santi Prego
Santiago Office Clerk
Ramon Estevez
Man Behind Tom in Marrakech (uncredited)
Tatiana Hernández
Costume Design
Bill Clinton
Thanks
Ramon Estevez
Thanks
Emilio Estevez
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Richard Chew
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Mary Vernieu
Casting
Alberto Marini
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Janet Sheen
Executive Producer
John Sloss
Executive Producer
Julio Fernández
Executive Producer
Trevor Drinkwater
Executive Producer
David Alexanian
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Emilio Estevez
Producer
Julio Fernández
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Tyler Bates
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Emilio Estevez
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