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High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.

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THE ART OF TRAVEL Movie Review

Reviewed by Brian Orndorf

For some, traveling is defined as movement from location to location in as little time as possible. For others, traveling is merely the first step toward greater self-exploration, where adventures can teach and motivate the soul to higher plains of consciousness. "The Art of Travel" is an indie film that explores the very nature of wanderlust, and how it informs character and transforms life. It's filled with familiar dramatic footprints, but "Art" remains something worthwhile and unexpectedly delicate.

Catching his fiancée in a compromising position, Conner Layne (Chris Masterson) ditches his betrothed on their wedding day and boards the first plane out of the country. Ending up in

Nicaragua , Conner is overwhelmed by his vacation decision, but quickly soothed by his fellow travelers, who push the young man to challenge himself by abandoning his comfort zone and taking on new challenges. When a week away soon becomes years, Conner struggles with the concept of settling back down and returning home, trying to imagine a world without the constant life-altering experiences he's grown accustom to.

"Art of Travel" is truly about the simple pleasures in life. It's an unpretentious motion picture, endeavoring to construct the journey of a sheltered teenager as he grows into a knowing, mentally-porous adult. The direction by Thomas Whelan reaches for poetry and achieves an even flow of culture shock humor and gentle Zen-like absorptions of experiences. It's a sturdy directorial job for a difficult movie; one that wants to spread the idea of travel as the ultimate cotton swab of life, but also engages in good times to keep the less spiritually open audience member awake.

The lighthearted moments of Conner's early days in foreign lands hold the most wildly appealing material. Scenarios with Conner facing erratic shower facilities, the culture of petty crime, and his interactions with some sexually-minded fellow travelers lend the film some decent laughs before it all starts to slip into solemnity. Once Conner meets up with a pair of Americans (Brooke Burns and Johnny Mesner) looking to clear an unimaginable path through dense South American forest, "Art" settles down and begins to itemize Conner's revelations and obstacles. The transition isn't jarring, but a certain playfulness is left behind the film could've emphasized further down into the story.

While I'm not convinced Masterson has the gravitas to sell Conner's more insular struggles of the soul, I did enjoy his performance, which does thankfully pull the actor away from his "Malcolm in the Middle" legacy and into more promising actorly fields of emoting. He's a solid center for this relaxed movie, helping the story get through thin-ice plot turns (an encounter with violent jungle Guerrillas lacks credibility) and substantial time jumps.

"Art" eventually turns romantic, focusing on Conner's relationship with traveling pal Anna (Angelika Baran), and steps even further away from what makes this movie feel special: the restless soul. The arc is performed nicely and it fits a very specific thematic need in Brian LaBelle's script, but it also restrains the picture from further wonder. "Art of Travel" is a dynamic travelogue, with gorgeous locations and fascinating psychological issues to address, so it seems only appropriate that when it stops to explore a stagnant life, the film feels impatient to move on to the next adventure.

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The Art of Travel Reviews

...director Thomas Whelan embraces the wanderlust spirit in this enjoyable if uneven film, whose qualities often reflect the television background of most of its cast.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 3, 2008

The use of such locales as Bolivia, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru adds to the exotic flavor of the film.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 2, 2008

Part The Graduate, part Fitzcarraldo, The Art of Travel is a tribute to living on the road less traveled. Filmed entirely on location, it offers a more rounded portrayal of culture outside of the standard Hollywood clichs

Full Review | Aug 18, 2008

Overacted and overblown, pic will underwhelm commercially, with theatrical perhaps limited to friends and family.

Full Review | Jun 19, 2008

It's a sturdy directorial job for a difficult movie; one that wants to spread the idea of travel as the ultimate cotton swab of life, but also engages in good times to keep the less spiritually open audience members awake.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 15, 2008

Travel is an ambitious, involving and extensive travelogue that challenges the imagination. [A] feasible fable that allows one to remain contemplative and connected

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 6, 2008

...cloying and a structural mess

Full Review | Apr 28, 2008

It's too bad that there isn't a documentary about the making of The Art of Travel since that would undoubtedly make for an interesting movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2008

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• Reeling Reviews Laura Clifford ...director Thomas Whelan embraces the wanderlust spirit in this enjoyable if uneven film, whose qualities often reflect the television background of most of its cast.
• Reeling Reviews Robin Clifford The use of such locales as Bolivia, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru adds to the exotic flavor of the film.
• Internet Reviews Steve Rhodes It's too bad that there isn't a documentary about the making of The Art of Travel since that would undoubtedly make for an interesting movie.
• Movie Eye Frank Ochieng Travel is an ambitious, involving and extensive travelogue that challenges the imagination. [A] feasible fable that allows one to remain contemplative and connected
• BrianOrndorf.com Brian Orndorf It's a sturdy directorial job for a difficult movie; one that wants to spread the idea of travel as the ultimate cotton swab of life, but also engages in good times to keep the less spiritually open audience members awake.
• Variety John Anderson Overacted and overblown, pic will underwhelm commercially, with theatrical perhaps limited to friends and family.
• Movie Views Ryan Cracknell Part The Graduate, part Fitzcarraldo, The Art of Travel is a tribute to living on the road less traveled. Filmed entirely on location, it offers a more rounded portrayal of culture outside of the standard Hollywood clichs
• OC Weekly Luke Y. Thompson ...cloying and a structural mess

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With a title guaranteed to draw swarming hordes of Town & Country subscribers, "The Art of Travel" is a coming-of-age picaresque that features a continent's worth of breathtaking miles, but not in the company of people you want to spend that much time with.

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With a title guaranteed to draw swarming hordes of Town & Country subscribers, “The Art of Travel” is a coming-of-age picaresque that features a continent’s worth of breathtaking miles, but not in the company of people you want to spend that much time with. Overacted and overblown, pic will underwhelm commercially, with theatrical perhaps limited to friends and family. DVD release is set for Sept. 2.

It certainly starts off with a bang, though, at one of the cinema’s great non-weddings: Set to marry the lovely, faithless Kate (Alexandra Breckenridge) in front of their collected kin, Conner Layne (Christopher Kennedy Masterson) says “I don’t” in no uncertain terms. He then proceeds to get drunk and catch the next plane available, which happens to be going to Managua, Nicaragua. There he will become a man — or least, less of a boy.

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Helmer Thomas Whelan (who wrote the script with producer Brian LaBelle) takes a leisurely amount of time getting his movie where it intends to go, which is on a grueling, yearlong trek through the Darien Gap — which is not, in fact, a clothing store in Connecticut, but rather a virtually impassable stretch separating Panama and Colombia.

The wanderlusting Conner is drafted onto the team — which includes such grizzly youth as One Ball (James Duval), Bullet (Shalim Ortiz) and Two Dogs (Jake Muxworthy) — by Christopher and Darlene Loren (Johnny Messner, Brooke Burns), who seem to have “white slavery” written all over them, but who somehow gain the milky-white gringo’s trust. The journey involves machetes and poisonous snakes, practical jokes and guerrillas, maturity and temper tantrums. And a romance between Conner and Anna (Angelika Baran), who, in case this was all sounding too genteel, is nicknamed “G-Spot.”

It would be nice to say the trip represents Conner’s rite of manhood, but he doesn’t change too much from the precociously clever, jungle-marching Doogie Howser he is at the beginning — aided and abetted by a script with no aversion to remarkable coincidence and convenient happenstance: When the team’s campsite is invaded by guerrillas, Conner disarms their commandante by quoting from a Bible-like book of revolutionary dogma Conner heisted from one of Managua’s flea-bag hotels. Not only does Masterson look like a Boy Scout, but his character knows how to “be prepared!”

Whelan’s directorial technique involves having his cast eschew nuance for rhetorical strong-arming, something to which most auds will likely be resistant. The landscapes are lush and beautiful, and make up for some but not all of what’s misfiring dramatically.

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• Production: A First Look Studios release of a Brenster Prods. presentation, in association with To Be Determined Distribution. Produced by Kyle Dean Jackson, Carol Masterson, Emyr G. Graciano, Brian LaBelle, Christopher Kennedy Masterson. Executive producers, Robert Lazo, Bob Costano. Co-producer, Kathryn Soler. Directed by Thomas Whelan. Screenplay, Brian LaBelle, Whelan.
• Crew: Camera (color), Lawson Denning; editor, Yesenia Higuera; music, Steve Bartek; production designer, Jennifer Williams; art director, Williams; (Dolby Digital), Gary Day; supervising sound editor/sound designer, Michael McDonald; visual effects supervisor, Kenneth Armstrong; stunt coordinator, G. Peter King; associate producer, Christine Felton; assistant director, John Vanover. Reviewed on DVD, Los Angeles, June 8, 2008. (In Palm Springs Film Festival, 2007 Boston Film Festival.) Running time: 100 MIN.
• With: With: Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Johnny Messner, Brooke Burns, Angelika Baran, James Duval, Shalim Ortiz, Jake Muxworthy, Alexandra Breckenridge.

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Christopher Masterson (Conner Layne) Brooke Burns (Darlene Loren) Johnny Messner (Christopher Loren) James Duval (Taylor 'One Ball') Jake Muxworthy (Justin 'Two Dogs') Shalim Ortiz (Carlos 'Bullet') Angelika Libera (Anna 'G-Spot') Bijou Phillips (Christina Layne) Ernie Lively (Mr. Layne) Maria Conchita Alonso (Mrs. Layne)

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Having called off his wedding, a high school graduate journeys alone to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.

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The art of travel.

2008 Directed by Thomas Whelan

The art of travel is to deviate from the current plan.

High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.

Christopher Masterson Brooke Burns Johnny Messner James Duval Angelika Libera Jake Muxworthy Shalim Ortiz Ernie Lively María Conchita Alonso Bijou Phillips Alexandra Breckenridge Tommy Savas Frank Califano Silvia Spross Annie Huntley Brian LaBelle Danny Trejo

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Thomas Whelan

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Corey Large

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Steve Bartek

Alternative Title

Uma Viagem Inesquecível

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Review by horizonmars ★★★

I won't lie, this film was initially a struggle to get through. So much so that I ended up watching it in two separate instalments. The plot is overly contrived, the script fairly unbelievable, and certain sequences are incredibly hammy (the jungle sections in particular).

But where this film redeems itself is through it's fairly good performances across the board. The exchanges between Christopher Masterson's and Angelika Libera's characters toward the latter end of the film are credible and relatable (particularly to someone who has travelled extensively in the past, as in the case of this author.)

The film also manages to capture the thrill of the open road fairly well, helped in no small part by the often breathtaking…

Review by PhillyFilmFan ★★½

This film begins with an excellent premise. Our hero has just graduated from high school and is about to marry his sweetheart after four years of savings themselves for each other. During their wedding he interrupts the ceremony to inform everybody that he has a present for each of them. The crowd reaches under their seats to find envelopes containing a picture of the bride in bed with the groom's brother. Our hero then tells the bride to fuck off, walks out of the ceremony and catches the next available flight out of town. That flight takes him to Managua, Nicaragua where drunken escapades with Dutch co-eds ensue alongside muggings and other clashes with the locals. The movie's a whole lot of fun until the main character decides to go on a dangerous, year-long trek through the jungle. It takes forever and it's not very interesting. Also, the ending is stupid.

Review by Vince Rogue ★★★★

"Relax, have a beer, and see what happens next."

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