Peter Saraf

When a single father to a teenage daughter learns that he has a fatal brain tumor, he takes her on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before and to try to teach her everything she might need over the rest of her life.

Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (``American Beauty``) from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski [``The Office`] and Maya Rudolph [``Saturday Night Live`]), as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover ``home`` on their own terms for the first time. The movie features the music of Alexi Murdoch.