Heads Up: Away We Go Screening with Dave Eggers

Saturday, May 9th, the Northwest Film Forum teams up with 826 Seattle to present a special screening of Away We Go, the latest film by Sam Mendes. The movie will be in theaters June 5th, but this sneak-peek will be at the Harvard Exit with Dave Eggers (who wrote the screenplay along with his author wife Vendela Vida) on-hand for a post-film Q&A. Away We Go is your basic coming-of-age road-trip thing, except this time around the people coming of age are a mid-30s couple (John Krasinksi and Maya Rudolph) expecting their first child. So their misadventure-laden journey is not just about finding themselves, it's also about finding the best place for their family. What is the meaning of home? And so on and so forth.

So yeah, it's one of those movies, but that doesn't mean it can't be good, especially when you've got Eggers--whose heavily buzzed-about Where the Wild Things Are adaptation is out this October--doing the writing. We'd expect tickets will sell out quickly, so get 'em sooner than later. All proceeds from the evening go to support 826 Seattle's programs. As always, it's for the children.

May 9th, 5 p.m. // Harvard Exit // Roy St. // $25 GA, $20 826 volunteers/NWFF members