The unlikeliest, funniest crowd pleaser ever...

Rating: 9/10 (19 August 2006)

This movie is hilarious.
Here you have a gay and discredited former college professor who fails at committing suicide, a Nietzsche-reading teen observing a self-imposed vow of silence, a heroin-snorting, smut-loving grandpa, a worn down and stressed out mom, and a motivational speaker who cannot see what everyone else always has - he's a self-delusional idiot. And a little girl who looks up to them.
Sound like a formula for a feel good comedy? Amazingly, it is. In fact, I laughed out loud so many times that by the end I was wiping tears from my eyes.
But this movie surpasses other situational road trip flicks - it gives you lots of twists and fiascos to laugh at, AND offers three-dimensional characters you can relate to and identify with. You end up feeling a part of the clan.
A true achievement of independent film making.