Win Passes To THE WAY Screening In St. Louis

From director Emilio Estevez and starring Martin Sheen comes a modern-day odyssey – THE WAY – the soulful journey of a man rocked by personal crisis who sets off on an epic mountain trek, thinking he is utterly lost, only to keep bumping into surprise moments of community, companionship and inspiration that begin to steer his way. This spirited road-movie-on-foot crosses territory that is alternately comic, adventurous and keenly moving, even as it becomes an unforeseen gift from a son to his father.

THE WAY’s production was marked by a close and deep father-and-son collaboration – one that took director Emilio Estevez and actor Martin Sheen on a passage together into the high mountains of France and Spain and through some of the richly human questions that draw them both: questions about love, about community and about what keeps us moving forward when the road starts getting tougher, stranger and seemingly more forbidding. In the process, they had a chance to explore not only the awe-inspiring land of their ancestors, but their shared fascination with the power of laughter, forgiveness and even vexing relationships to make the most arduous path feel meaningful.

WAMG is giving away passes so you can be the first to see THE WAY this Thursday, October 6th at AMC West Olive 16 at 7pm.

OFFICIAL RULES:

1. YOU MUST BE IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA THE DAY OF THE SCREENING.

2. FILL OUT YOUR NAME AND E-MAIL ADDRESS BELOW. REAL FIRST NAME REQUIRED.

3. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: The Pyrenees Mountains form the natural border between what TWO countries?

WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN THROUGH A RANDOM DRAWING OF QUALIFYING CONTESTANTS. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PASSES WILL NOT BE SUBSTITUTED OR EXCHANGED. DUPLICATE TICKETS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED!

Synopsis:

Tom (SHEEN) is an affluent California doctor who arrives in St. Pied de Port, France to collect the ashes of his venturesome son, Daniel (ESTEVEZ), who perished during a freak storm in the Pyrenees Mountains. Arriving in a daze, Tom intends to turn right back around for the home Daniel once dubbed an isolating “bubble” — but at the last minute, he instead makes the most impulsive decision of his carefully ordered life.

Following in his son’s footsteps, quite literally, Tom begins to walk the 500-mile Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage that for more than 1000 years has been made by millions of around the world for every conceivable reason, from sheer adventure to searching for answers. Out of shape and out of sorts, Tom stumbles from the trailhead, defiantly on his own. He doesn’t want solace, and he’s not so sure he believes in salvation. But try as he might to escape, he keeps running into unwanted company – including that of a sarcastic Canadian (DEBORAH KARA UNGER) trying to kick the habit, a hefty, hedonistic Dutchman (YORICK VAN WAGENINGEN) wining and dining his way through Spain, and a motor-mouthed Irish author (JAMES NESBITT) chasing the story that might blast through his writer’s block.

Step by step, stunning mile after stunning mile, as Tom makes his way through incidents both frightening and funny – from raging rapids to Gypsy encounters — he can’t seem to help opening up to the breathtaking landscape, to his unavoidable companions and the new possibilities that now surround him at every turn. Suddenly, his misfit fellow travelers become his truest friends. Memories become his strength. And Tom begins to see that all the comedy, wonder and joy of the journey itself are what he was really after – and that this is just the beginning of going after his destination.

Sums up Sheen: “The most gratifying thing when I’ve seen audiences watching the film is to see them really inserting themselves into the journey with Tom and wondering if it would be possible for them. So many people come up afterwards and say, ‘where do I sign up to do something like this?’ It’s a powerful thing to be able to inspire people.”

Producers Distribution Agency and ARC Entertainment present an Elixir Films Production of THE WAY, a film written and directed by Emilio Estevez. The film is produced by David Alexanian and Estevez and stars Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick van Wageningen and James Nesbitt.

THE WAY will be in select cities on October 7th and NATIONWIDE October 21st.

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