Away We Go Page #5

Synopsis: Burt Farlander and Verona De Tessant are a couple steeped in eccentricity and irregularity but are very much in love. So when they find out that Verona is pregnant they seem to be taking it in their stride. Verona is enjoying pregnancy, Burt is already practicing skill that he believes a good father should have, and they living in the same state as Burt's parents, Jerry and Gloria, so that their prospective daughter can have grandparents. However, things are shaken up when Burt and Verona go to dinner at Jerry and Gloria's house, as Burt's parents reveal a surprising piece of news. They have decided to move to Antwerp in Belguim a month before the baby is due, scuppering Burt and Verona's plans of having their children's grandparents around. Because Verona lost her parents when she was relatively young, she finds this news very hard to take, but the resilient couple quickly find a way to turn it in to a positive. It becomes obvious that this is what the pair needed, as they decide to e
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Sam Mendes
Production: Focus Features
  3 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2009
98 min
$9,400,000
Website
1,226 Views


Come on! Come on!

Oh! Now she's shy.

Did you see her ass?

She's got like...

What is it? What is it?

What?

Junk in the trunk.

She's got junk in her trunk!

Oh, my God!

It looks like a duffel bag

full of bricks.

I don't know if dykes

go for that or not.

Do they?

Burt, you worked with

a lesbian, didn't you?

Yes. Yes, I did.

I can't hear you!

I just don't think we should be talking

about it right in front of the children.

Please. Burt, it's just white noise

to them. Listen, watch this.

Taylor? Taylor?

Taylor? Taylor?

Taylor? Taylor?

I can keep going on and on.

They don't hear us. Seriously.

So tell me about the dyke.

The greyhounds have reached the

starting box for this afternoon's first race.

They are ready to go

over the 550-yard course.

What's your line again, Burt?

Insurance.

Like life insurance?

Sometimes.

But it's mostly

insurance futures.

It's pretty cool, actually.

Similar to how an individual or

a family might get insurance,

insurance companies

need insurance themselves.

It's sort of this hedge against...

Goddamn.

Of course it would come to this.

Yeah. What?

They made us afraid

of everything.

Insurance for insurance,

for insurance.

This country is just such a...

Ladies and gentlemen,

it is now race time.

Well, anyway,

if this country is sh*t,

everyone else is just

the flies on our sh*t.

Am I right?

And away they go and to the inside.

157 powers out to the front,

followed by the...

Go! Go!

...now on the inside turn...

Pick it up, pal!

Pick it up!

Hey, Lowell!

I used to have nice tits, right?

Verona doesn't seem to remember,

I don't think.

I had nice jugs, right?

They sucked me dry.

I don't even need a bra.

Now I just tuck them into my socks.

You ready for that, Burt?

They'll look like

an old man's nut sack.

They even grow hair on them.

A hairy old man's nut sack.

In Some Time and Queen Anne...

In Some Time!

Queen Anne is second.

Look at them go!

Pathetic.

So, Burt, you excited about all this?

Yeah.

This might be the best

one I've ever seen.

No, the baby, dummy.

Does this mean you guys

will finally get married?

They're not married?

I told you that.

Burt wants to, Verona doesn't

see the point.

Insurance, for one. If anyone,

you should understand that, Bart.

Anyone ever call you Bart?

It'd be kind of funny.

We didn't have insurance

when Ashley was born.

Well, we thought we did, and then

we didn't. And then I couldn't get it.

Pre-existing condition.

I'm crazy!

Look, whatever.

I don't know. I...

I guess I just never gave that much

thought to "marriage" marriage.

Well, at the very least, it'll keep you from

taking off in the middle of the night

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is the husband of writer Vendela Vida with whom he has two children. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers is also the founder of McSweeney's, a literary journal, a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness, and the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in several magazines. more…

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