World Traveler

Name: World Traveler
Genre: Drama
Released: April 19, 2002
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 39
Cast: Billy Crudup, Julianne Moore

2002

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Columbia TriStar Home Video | Release Date: April 19, 2002 | R

Starring: Billy Crudup, Julianne Moore

Summary: This contemporary road movie tells the story of a restless, thirty-something New Yorker (Crudup) who, one day, simply drives off, leaving his wife, baby and home behind.

Director: Bart Freundlich

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

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Lisa Nesselson

Although occasionally both overwritten and overly symbolic, tale carries a satisfying emotional charge. Read full review

Hank Sartin

Crudup takes a riskier path: his architect isn't very nice and is possibly irredeemable. His performance is subtle, complicated, and fresh, and it's a shame the movie doesn't live up to it. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Crudup is the best navigator a road movie like World Traveler can have, but even he can't single-handedly transport these goods from nowhere to somewhere. Read full review

Kim Morgan

Limps shallowly along.

Stephen Holden

Neither the screenplay nor the film's visual vocabulary begins to evoke a charged spiritual tension between the protagonist and the world. Read full review

Connie Ogle

Crudup is about as effective as anyone could be in the dreary World Traveler, but he can't keep this shallow, pretentious film from wallowing in banality and staggering self-indulgence. Read full review

Charles Taylor

It's hard to remember a movie that has asked us to care, without giving us reason to, about a character who is so thoroughly and relentlessly a prick. Read full review

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