Director-writer Martin Hynes shapes his first movie into something emotionally truthful, painfully funny and vibrantly alive. Its a near-perfect road movie, since you dont want the ride to end. Oregon teenager Mercer White, played by a subtly sensational Lou Taylor Pucci, hits the highway in a stolen car to track down his half-brother, Arlen (Jsu Garcia), who doesnt know their mother has died. In concise episodes that rim over with the pleasures of the unexpected, Hynes deepens Mercers encounters with characters played by the superb likes of Jena Malone, Nick Offerman, Judy Greer, Maura Tierney and a knockout Bill Duke. Hynes chief inspiration was a cellphone left in the car by the owner, who keeps nagging and nurturing Mercer throughout the trip. The throaty voice, which sounds like a sexy angel with a yen for wicked hell, belongs to Zooey Deschanel, whose larynx steals the show before the rest of her even shows up. Deschanel is the total package: talent, looks, smarts and a gift for putting magic into whatever she touches. Check out her CD, She & Him: Volume One, with M. Ward, whose beguiling songs dot the Go-Getter soundtrack. Together Deschanel and Pucci discover the essence of Hynes movie: its grieving heart. This ones a keeper.
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