“Just like Mom and Dad.”

From Where’d You Go, Bernadette.

Over twenty years ago, Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett) was a brilliant, award-winning architect, but after disaster struck her most famous project, she left it all behind with the exception of the friendship with her mentor (Laurence Fishburne).  Bernadette and her husband, Elgie (Billy Crudup), moved to Seattle so he could better continue his work with Microsoft, and Bernadette focused all her attention on their daughter, Bee (Emma Nelson).  While Bernadette can’t stand the annoying “gnat” parents from Bee’s school, there are two that she can’t get away from: her neighbor, Audrey (Kristen Wiig), and her husband’s administrative assistant from work, Soo-Lin (Zoë Chao).  Despite major health issues as a young child, Bee has grown into a brilliant, healthy 8th-grader who wants to take a family cruise to Antarctica as a reward for her years of straight-A’s.  As Bernadette has her virtual personal assistant from India, doing all the preparing for the trip, she grows more and more terrified of the trip and other areas of life quickly begin to unravel as Audrey complains both about Bernadette’s overgrown blackberry bushes and Bernadette’s lack of involvement at Bee’s school.  Things quickly slide out of control in Bernadette’s financial, emotional, and mental world, leaving Elgie feeling that there is only one solution for the good of the family.  During the psychologist-led (Judy Greer) intervention that Elgie planned for his wife, the anxious, obsessive Bernadette disappears from their home and continent.  While Elgie and the world assume the worst of Bernadette, Bee refuses to give up on her mother and leads her father on an unbelievable adventure that will change their family forever.

Based on Maria Semple’s novel of the same name, the movie captures all that was enjoyable about the book while also using amazing sets and locations to bring the story to life.  Blanchett perfectly captures Bernadette’s anxiety and quick wit, leading the rest of the brilliantly-selected cast in a endearing adventure.  While the mystery aspect is diluted compared to the book, Where’d You Go, Bernadette still manages to be a sweet and captivating not-to-be-missed movie.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 130 minutes |Genre: comedy/drama |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 3* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 0 of 10

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