The Way
All actors and roles (10)
All team (30)
Short description
Tom Avery is a Californian ophthalmologist and widower whose adult son Daniel died in a storm in the Pyrenees at the start of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. Estranged from Daniel for years, Tom travels to France to claim the body, then sets out to walk the route himself, carrying his son's ashes in Daniel's backpack and scattering them along the way. He begins alone, but falls in with other pilgrims from different countries, each of them looking for something of their own, and the long trek across the mountains into Spain gradually changes his settled, orderly view of life.
Emilio Estevez directed and co-wrote the film with Jack Hitt, and produced it with Julio Fernández and David Alexanian. It is his third feature as director, after Men at Work (1990) and Bobby (2006); he also appears as Daniel. Martin Sheen, Estevez's father, plays Tom, heading a cast of 33 that includes Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick van Wageningen, James Nesbitt and Tchéky Karyo. The film was released in September 2010 and runs 128 minutes.
Made across Spain and the United States, it took about 7 million dollars worldwide. Audiences rate it 7.3/10 on IMDb from some 38,000 votes and 7.1/10 on TMDB, while critics give it 6.6/10 from 96 reviews, so it lands somewhat lower with reviewers than with viewers.
What's left behind the scenes
- The Way of St. James, El Camino de Santiago (Spanish: El Camino de Santiago) is a famous pilgrimage route to the tomb of the Apostle James in the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, the main part of which runs through Northern Spain. Due to its popularity and branching nature, this route had a great influence on the spread of cultural achievements in the Middle Ages. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Since the early 1980s, the route's popularity has steadily increased; in 1978, only 13 people traveled it, while in 2009, more than 145,000 did.
- In one scene, the characters drink Spanish liqueur Orujo, supposedly infused with 18 varieties of different herbs. In reality, traditional Orujo is a 40% grape brandy, but there is also a 30% Orujo variety called “Paso Mayor” infused with herbs such as angelica and rosemary.
- At the end of their journey, the characters head to the coast in the town of Muxia to the shrine “Santuario da Virxe da Barca”. This is approximately 70 km from Santiago de Compostela, where the Way of St. James ends.
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