As Jim Halpert, the funny, devoted beau of Pam on TV's "The Office," Krasinski had already made himself the reigning titleholder.
But with Burt Farlander, the actor has topped even himself. As the scruffy, futures-trading father-to-be in "Away We Go," Krasinski hits relationship guy apex: a charmingly clumsy man who proposes to his girlfriend every other day and will stop at nothing to make her laugh.
Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph), a 30-something couple expecting a baby, are on a road trip, pausing for the night at a quiet Southwest hotel. They sit alone by the pool, a calm island in the evening coolness.
Glib and charming in roughly equal measure, the road-tripping "Away We Go" is worth seeing for Maya Rudolph, best known for being underutilized on "Saturday Night Live.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Thanks to hit television show "The Office," John Krasinski has become one of the hottest young actors in Hollywood -- in demand for TV and movies. In his latest film.
Not because of his weird garb of Swiss shirt, Barca flag and revolutionary cap, but because he was apparently the only man on Earth determined to ruin one of sport's great lump-in-the throat moments. Robin Soderling never threatened.
Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski star as a couple on the road in the comedy "Away We Go." After cruelly dissecting marital malaise in "American Beauty" and again.
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