This is about as realistic and far fetched a road trip movie can get. Mercer (Lou Taylor Pucci) has a revelation one random day and takes his new idea to the extreme. He steals a car so he can find the brother he never knew (He's 18 years older and moved out when Mercer was a child). This is a odd way to start your film. Our hero is a timid young car their? Not in this kind of movie. However they played it off fantastically. The owner of the car left her phone in there and calls Mercer. She can tell he's a scared kid that has a good heart, so she loans him the car. In exchange Mercer must call her and give frequent updates on the trip. Mercer is intrigued as we are and we learn a little more about the mysterious yet lovable Kate (Zooey Deschanel) as the film goes on.
Mercer meets plenty of odd characters while looking for his brother but nothing seems to crazy. It's simple even when Mercer hangs out with a children's band on probation. Is this a movie to remember years from now and look back kindly on? Probably not. I'll remember a few keys scenes (one being a marvelous tribute to the cafe scene in "Band of Outsiders") and that's really about it. A road trip is remembering the key events most the time, not every pit stop. So I guess the "Go-Getter" should be remembered for something like that.
7/10
Recommendation: A good road trip movie if you like the actors (I say that way to much but it's true). If it's on TV or you see it sitting on a shelf, I'd watch it.
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