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The Way Back
Directed by
Peter Weir
PG-13
2010
2h 13m
Drama
,
Adventure
,
and more
7.3
73%
72%
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Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.
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Cast of The Way Back
Ed Harris
Mr. Smith
Jim Sturgess
Janusz Wieszczek
Saoirse Ronan
Irena Zielińska
Colin Farrell
Valka
Mark Strong
Andrei Khabarov
Gustaf Skarsgård
Andrejs Voss
Dejan Angelov
Andrei
Dragoș Bucur
Zoran
Sally Brunski
Janusz's Wife, 1939
Alexandru Potocean
Tomasz Horodinsky
Sebastian Urzendowsky
Kazik
Zahari Baharov
Interrogator
Ihor Hniezdilov
Bohdan
Stanislav Pishtalov
Commandant
Mariy Rosen
Lazar
Nikolay Stanoev
Yuri
Stefan Shterev
Cook
Yordan Bikov
Garbage Eater #1
Ruslan Kupenov
Garbage Eater #2
Nikolay Mutafchiev
Guard #1
Valentin Ganev
Guard #2
Anton Trendafilov
Steam Man
Pearce Quigley
The Professor
Sattar Dikambayev
Mongolian Horseman
Hal Yamanouchi
Official
Meglena Karalambova
Janusz's Wife, 1989
Irinei Konstantinov
Janusz, 1989
The Way Back Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
The man-versus-the-natural world story is in Weir's wheelhouse, and Harris and Farrell get into a scene-stealing duel. Worth the trek.
Film.com
Eric D. Snider
Eventually the film itself is something of an endurance test, and not as rewarding as it hopes to be. But it's a worthy venture, earnest and well-produced and occasionally gripping.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
he long stretches between stations make The Way Back an arduous road.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The result is a film that seems simultaneously grand and skimpy. For all its faults, it's an honorable effort, though. I hope Weir doesn't wait seven more years for his next film.
Washington Post
Dan Kois
Weir's movie is superbly made, but its fancy-dancing around history gives a hint of inauthenticity to a film that otherwise thrives on its reverence for historical detail.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The film largely misses its opportunities to reflect the enormity of communism, choosing instead the route of a conventional adventure yarn.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
It's impossible not to cry at their suffering, but whether you'll feel anything is another story.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The Way Back fails to connect on the all-important visceral, emotional level.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Much like the group it chronicles the movie never relents, never stops and, more importantly, never gives up. It keeps moving forward, forward, forward, refusing to back down or give in no matter what sort of hardship or tragedy pops up along the way.
Newsweek
Jennie Yabroff
... a placid, almost pleasant film, so reluctant to offend that it fails to engage.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
Weir has always loved atmospheric locales and group dynamics, and here he makes the most of both
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The abiding sensation, at the end, is one not of fulfillment but of exhaustion.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
The Way Back represents an exquisite example of style over substance, of vast visuals dwarfing the characters and nearly swallowing the story whole.
TIME Magazine
Mary F. Pols
The overall metaphor Weir was aiming for - this idea of enemies so powerful and a war so menacing and confusingly big that no place seems safe except a place absurdly far away - comes through clearly and stays with you.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Whether it's true or not, this portrait of desperate, determined people surviving blizzards and dust storms and crossing mountains and deserts is a gruff and uplifting celebration of how much people can take and how much they value freedom.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
There are exhilarating moments, and there are some undeniably tense scenes. Mixed in, however, is possibly more trudging than you're going to see in any other film.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
This artful tale of survival against the elements - radiating terror and beauty - continues Peter Weir's fascination with characters trapped by worlds they didn't make.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
How many new ways can you dramatize icy gales, parched deserts, agonizing thirst, shimmering mirages? And how do you step up the pace of a story that's about people walking?
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
This doesn't sound like a lot of fun to watch, but Weir - in his first movie since 2003's "Master and Commander" - makes it mesmerizing and occasionally lyrical.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Whether it is truth, fiction or, most likely, a little of each, the story Weir tells is a powerful parable of man's charge for freedom and his humbling by nature.
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