“The Way” is a powerful and inspirational story about family, friends and the challenges we face while navigating this ever-changing and complicated world.
“The Way” is a powerful and inspirational story about family, friends and the challenges we face while navigating this ever-changing and complicated world. Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son (played by Emilio Estevez), killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James. Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son’s desire to finish the journey.
In 2010 Estevez and Sheen began a bus tour to promote the film. FilmDayton and the Dayton Art Institute helped bring them to Dayton!
Now after a two-year journey to gain back the rights to The Way, Emilio Estevez has arranged with Fathom Events to re-release the film nationwide on May 16 on about 800 screens or more. The effort has led to not only a chance to dust off a 12-year old film, but also to start progress on a sequel.
Estevez says in an interview with Deadline says “This has always been a very special movie to me. This has grown from a passion project into something else. This is a second bite at the apple, which is rare for a movie,” Estevez said. “It’s a movie that is now more of its time than when we made it. Going through and coming out of Covid, people want to get out and travel again, see the world and be less isolated.”
Fathom Events is hosting the special screening on May 16th at 7pm here at the Regal Fairfield Commons. You can buy tickets online for $15.
