Around the Bend is a 2004 road comedy-drama film written and directed by Jordan Roberts and starring Christopher Walken, Josh Lucas, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, and Jonah Bobo.

[citation needed] Jason Lair lives with his ailing grandfather Henry, son Zach, and a live-in nurse, Katrina, from Denmark.

The first stop is local, at Henry’s wife’s grave, where Turner reads some words while playing music, and he leaves her a sandwich.

Zach’s mom picks him up, and Jason finds out that Turner is experiencing kidney failure and living on borrowed time.

The site's critics consensus reads: "Around the Bend sets a destination of earnest generational drama, but settles for the most derivative route to get there, veering off course into trite sentimentality.

[3] Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle wrote "Jordan Roberts' feature debut pulls off the dizzying high-wire act of being both a misty-eyed glimpse into four generations of the men in the Lair family and a steely meditation on manhood, parenting, and the pitfalls thereof".

For example, Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that "Around the Bend would be a much bigger treat if dramas like this weren't already plentiful on cable television".

[5] Ty Burr of The Boston Globe, stated: "Of course, audiences need and deserve tales of family reconciliation, but that doesn't make this one any less bogus at its softly fluttering heart".

[9] According to Eddie Cockrell of Variety the film "[has] a forced feeling of familial bonding burdened with an air of determined idiosyncrasy".