Theatre Thursdays- Away We Go

So I know that this weeks movie has been reviewed to death on feminist blogs but I can't resist it. I recently got the chance to see "Away We Go" and was very touched. It is about an unmarried couple expecting a child and they decide that since Bert's [John Krasinski] parents announce that they are moving thousands of miles away and that money is too tight to stay where they are that he and Verona [Maya Rudolph] should go traveling to visit some friends and family to find their new families "Perfect Home". On the way they visit Verona's old boss, played hilariously by Allison Janney, Burt's cousin, played to perfection by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the over sensitive feminist professor who refuses to sleep apart from her children or even push them in a stroller so as not to cause them "separation issues". The cast is impeccable ending with them finding their perfect home in a very surprising, yet perfect place. The movie is not without its flaws Gyllenhaal's feminist mom though hilarious does on occasion come off as slightly condescending and it is sometimes unclear whether writers Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida were trying to make an offbeat comedy or a straight drama but nevertheless, the scene when Burt and Verona make promises to one another and Burt turns to Verona and says, "promise me to let our daughter be fat or skinny or whatever weight she wants to be because we just want her to be happy and because being obsessed with her weight is just too cliche for our daughter.." sealed it for me. This movie is a great step in the right direction for female characters and the messages for young girls in the film industry.