Around the Bend

For the Pearl Jam song, see Around the Bend ((song). For the Randy Travis album, see Around the Bend (album).
Around the Bend

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jordan Roberts
Produced by Julie Kirkham
Elliott Lewitt
Written by Jordan Roberts
Starring Christopher Walken
Josh Lucas
Michael Caine
Music by David Baerwald
Cinematography Michael Grady
Edited by Françoise Bonnot
Distributed by Warner Independent Pictures
Release dates
October 8, 2004
Country United States
Language English

Around the Bend is a 2004 road movie written and directed by Jordan Roberts. The film is inspired by the relationship between Roberts and the absentee, criminally insane, substance-abusing father he barely knew, Robert Stone Jordan (born: Robert Samuel Jordan), a self-styled indie film director/producer in his later years. In the 1970s Bob Jordan toured with Leon Russell for a film project that he thoroughly bungled due to his drug-induced manic behavior. In the 1990s he produced and directed one of the first digitally captured film experiments based on the characters in Alice in Wonderland, often known as "Through the Looking Glass". His last known film project, "Meth" filmed in and around Palmdale/Lancaster CA involved a film "completion fund" scam where he ran off with the Sony Camera equipment loaned to him and the money he had collected from several investors. Upon returning to CA, he eventually died awaiting a liver transplant in 2001, without ever contacting his sons. Christopher Walken bore an uncanny resemblance to Robert Jordan both in the physical and in his ability to appear menacing and unpredictable.

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Reception

Around the Bend received negative reviews from critics, as the film holds a 28% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 96 reviews.

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