American Sunshine

Lessons of the Road, With Phone

The long and winding road traveled by Mercer White (Lou Taylor Pucci), the ingenuous 19-year-old protagonist of Martin Hynes’s wispy but appealing film “The Go-Getter,” leads from Eugene, Ore., to Reno, Nev.; Mojave, Calif.; Los Angeles; Ensenada, Mexico; and back, with many stops along the way. Mercer’s vehicle is a well-traveled Volvo station wagon he impulsively steals at a car wash and drives off into the unknown.
Mercer, whose mother died eight months earlier, is on the trail of Arlen (Jsu Garcia), his older half-brother, whom he hasn’t seen in more than a decade, to inform him of their mother’s death. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3915 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 6 Giugno 2008