Around the Bend

A bitter, recently divorced man is goaded by his grandfather and son into going on a family road trip to reconcile with his estranged father. In Los Angeles, Jason Lair is recently separated, living with his grandfather and his son. He's a banker, tense, with a limp. Grandfather Henry, an archaeologist, wants to take the family van on a trip to Albuquerque. His plans are interrupted when Turner, Jason's father and Henry's son, appears after years of absence. Henry wants to celebrate family, as does Zach, Jason's son; Jason is angry and distant, Turner seems detached and says he's got a bus to catch in the morning. This prompts Henry to put in place an elaborate plan that will send his "tribe" on that Volkswagen bus trip to New Mexico sorting out relationships and digging up a crippled family history. —<jhailey@hotmail.com> Four generations of men who haven't seen each other in years are suddenly brought together by the chance to uncover the truth about their family's past. It's a journey that takes them out on the road to a world full of surprises, some comic, some dramatic, and all of them personal. A tale of four generations of men, three of whom have had their children at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about seven-years-old. When the oldest member dies, the trio heads out on the road together in the Southwest to search out an old family secret that connects to their past. —film@nmfilm.com