Jason Lair is a simple man with a simple wish: a normal life. This isn't an easy goal for the mild-mannered bank employee: Jason is newly separated from his wife, who has left him to care for their six-year-old son Zach while she paints in Nepal, and his ailing grandfather Henry, a former archaeologist close to death, who is investigating alternative rituals for his impending funeral. So when Jason's estranged father and Henry's son, Turner, whose checkered past includes exploits from the musical to the criminal, pays the family an unexpected visit, nothing is "simple" or "normal" in Jason's life anymore. In the coming days, the somewhat reluctant Lair men will embark on a trip not only through the mythic beauty of the Desert Southwest, but across the family's own rocky emotional landscape. Forced together by a deep loss, these very different people find a great deal along the way-devastating secrets, amazing discoveries and, just as Henry wanted--each other. 04353701.jpg R for language Drama, Comedy, Family Christopher Walken, Michael Caine, Josh Lucas, Jonah Bobo, Glenne Headly Jordan Roberts October 8, 2004 NY/LA 83 http://wip.warnerbros.com/aroundthebend/ Warner Brothers Julie Kirkham, Elliott Lewitt Jordan Roberts 43537 6 This is the first of a two-part saga. In a final period of hopeful innocence, free-spirited Nicola travels the world and settles for a career as a successful psychiatrist. Meanwhile, his tragically introverted and idealist brother Matteo joins the Italian police with the hopes of righting society's wrongs. Their politics and personalities are inextricably intertwined as the world around them violently shifts, and they are pushed together -- and pulled apart -- by the tides of history, as well as their own divergent dreams.

release year: 2005

star(s): Christopher Walken    Michael Caine