plan at all , it hinges on the support they 're expecting from Burt 's doting parents . So it 's a nasty wake-up call when Jerry and Gloria -LRB- Jeff Daniels and Catherine O'Hara -RRB- announce they 're taking off for a new life in Belgium -- yes , even before the baby 's out . There is a silver lining : Realizing they no longer have any reason to stay , Burt and Verona decide to widen their horizons . They could move to Arizona where Verona 's sister lives . Burt has a job prospect in Madison , Wisconsin . Or they have college friends in Montreal . Their destiny awaits them , all they have to do is go out and find it . And away they go . Although the couple racks up a good few miles in their search for home , the movie does n't betray much interest in location . Arizona is hot and arid . In Montreal they pour gravy on French fries . Do n't expect cultural insights . It 's never explained how these stragglers can afford such speculative wandering , and when they do find their dream home
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Maybe marriage to Kate Winslet is n't all that bad . Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski star as a couple on the road in the comedy `` Away We Go . '' After cruelly dissecting marital malaise in `` American Beauty '' and again , just six months ago , in `` Revolutionary Road , '' Winslet 's husband Sam Mendes takes a slightly more optimistic view of family life in the edgy comedy `` Away We Go . '' Not that he 's offering a whole-hearted endorsement of the institution . Burt and Verona -LRB- John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph -RRB- are n't legally bound -- she staunchly resists his repeated proposals -- but nevertheless they 're a couple about to go nuclear : She 's six months pregnant . He sells insurance to insurance companies . She 's an illustrator with a lucrative line in anatomical drawings . Nevertheless , they 're struggling to make ends meet . `` Are we losers ? '' wonders Verona -LRB- only she uses a more colorful expression -RRB- . `` We have cardboard windows ... I think we must be . '' Insomuch as they have a